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In reply to the discussion: I just learned where the CIA got the term "enhanced interrogation." [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)26. We borrowed a lot from the NAZIs when forming our CIA and other intelligence agencies after
WWII.
Eisenhower was quite impressed with British intelligencce. He was quite a fan.
There is a book on Eisenhower's infatuation with intelligence called Ike's Spies.
Our ability to win WWII was in great part thanks to our superior intelligence.
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"Charles "Tex" Colson...was the only person from Dick's White House to be sent to prison
BumRushDaShow
Dec 2014
#21
No race -- just want to peg the NAZI-lubbing so-and-sos for what they are: Fascists.
Octafish
Dec 2014
#24
I do find it interesting that whenever the current "boogyman" is in the news
SomethingFishy
Dec 2014
#17
It's all harmless, abstract abbreviations until somebody slams your head against a wall.
DetlefK
Dec 2014
#29
We borrowed a lot from the NAZIs when forming our CIA and other intelligence agencies after
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#26
"Befehl ist Befehl" ("orders are orders") is back by popular demand from the torturers.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2014
#40