ABOLISHCIA

Central Intelligence Agency

Seventy years of secret wars. We keep getting the bill.

Official story

What they claim to do

Gathers foreign intelligence and conducts covert operations to protect U.S. national security.

Ground truth

What they actually do

Documented operations include the 1953 coup in Iran, the 1954 coup in Guatemala, and a post-9/11 detention and torture program detailed in a 2014 Senate report. None of it was put to a public vote.

The libertarian case

Blowback is real, and covert action manufactures it. A republic can’t run an unaccountable foreign policy in the dark, toppling governments in the name of citizens who never got a say. Bring the intrigue into the open. Abolish the CIA.

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