{"id":90007,"date":"2012-08-07T13:23:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=90007"},"modified":"2012-08-07T13:23:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T20:23:12","slug":"whiteout-the-cia-drugs-and-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/whiteout-the-cia-drugs-and-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair<\/h3>\n

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If the CIA and FBI have recently been dedicated to protecting the people of America, it begs the question of what exactly they were doing before this momentous change in assignment. In the case of the CIA, the Agency\u2019s information analysis mission has been dwarfed by its \u201cCounter Intelligence\u201d mission. From assassinations and rigging elections, to protecting \u201cNational Security\u201d by supplying right-wing extremists with weapons and training them to export drugs and terrorize the local peasants, the CIA has always been happy to ignore our constitution and turn the definition of Democracy on its head.<\/p>\n

This book is a clear and concise overview of what the CIA has been doing all these years while claiming to protect the people of America. If you like to bury your head in the sand and ignore the facts, this is not the book for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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