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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: That dirty 'ol CIA
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 13:35:20 EST
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> Ah yes, the CIA, the great shapeless monster of every liberal's dreams.
> Spying is an international pastime.  Surely, I am disgusted when I read
> about those who have been caught spying for a foreign power and applaud
> our own people when we learn important information.  So what?  It is a lot
> like cheering for your home team.Don't read more into it than is really there.
> Certainly there have been abuses but to dismantle such an important
> organization simply because of this is absurd.

> Well, thankfully quite a few of us do care.
> 
> Generic Disclaimer,
> 
> Tom Hill

The argument on the net has not been over their info gathering but over their
overt manipulation of other countries' affairs.  Have you been reading the
articles, or just the Subject lines?  I'm glad you care, but I would prefer
your caring if it was a little less ethnocentric/nationalistic.

jdm