They say Americans do not do irony. And of course, they do. But the CIA, on the other hand….
When the US foreign intelligence agency issues press releases about the (shock/horror) attempts by the Russian government to influence the recent presidential campaigns, the irony is lost on them
The CIA have been trying to influence democratic elections all over the world for as long as they have been in existence. The most recent and most blatant example is their involvement in Iraq and Syria. Who decided what kind of democratic institutions would be set up after their illegal invasion of Iraq?
And it was their attempts to destabilise the government of Ukraine that clearly demonstrate their willingness to promote a foreign movement which the USA thinks it can profit from. They admit to spending over $5 billion in Ukraine trying to ensure the government there came into the western sphere of influence. They decline to say where the money was spent. They call it “supporting democratic institutions”. But the democratic institutions they supported are whichever ones were working towards the overturn of the Yanukovich government. $5 billion. To quote Victoria Nuland, the money was spent to help the Ukranian people “in their search for justice, human dignity, security, a return to economic health, and for the European future they have chosen and that they deserve.” Taking sides in an internal political dispute in a foreign country, and funding those who the US sees as acting in its interests. That is what the CIA does. When it is not assassinating foreign heads of state.
There are too many examples of CIA interference to list. The most egregious, like the overthrow of the democratically elected Allende government in Chile in 1973, resulted in thousands of deaths, torture victims and people ‘disappeared’. No twinges of conscience from the CIA about that success for USA foreign policy.
Pot. Kettle. Black.