CIA Involvement In French 2012 Election

Originally posted by DeepThought
Well, when accusing people of wrongdoing it helps to get the offence right. The offence in this case was information gathering against the political parties involved in an election. There is no evidence presented that they favoured any one candidate or attempted to alter the result of the election. The purpose of the OP is to defend Russia against the ...[text shortened]... e Russian hacking activities. So first there's tu quoque and second a false equivalence.

If the CIA can't gather such information, what exactly is its purpose? From its website:

The CIA is an independent agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers.

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The CIA is separated into five basic components: the Directorate of Operations, the Directorate of Analysis, the Directorate of Science & Technology, the Directorate of Support, and the Directorate of Digital Innovation. They carry out “the intelligence cycle,” the process of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence information to top US government officials.

https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/todays-cia

The OP gives examples of nothing but information gathering useful to the US government and provides no examples of any improper activities detrimental to the French democratic process.

Originally posted by DeepThought
Well, when accusing people of wrongdoing it helps to get the offence right. The offence in this case was information gathering against the political parties involved in an election. There is no evidence presented that they favoured any one candidate or attempted to alter the result of the election. The purpose of the OP is to defend Russia against the ...[text shortened]... e Russian hacking activities. So first there's tu quoque and second a false equivalence.

The OP is about the CIA interfering with the French elections in 2012 (spying is observing and all observering inherently causes interferance).

Originally posted by shavixmir
The OP is about the CIA interfering with the French elections in 2012 (spying is observing and all observering inherently causes interferance).

Heisenberg doesn't apply here.

Stop interfering with my posts you sheep shagging penny pinching Scot! 😠

Originally posted by shavixmir
The OP is about the CIA interfering with the French elections in 2012 (spying is observing and all observering inherently causes interferance).

Indeed, what is the point of intelligence gathering if its not to act upon it by developing policies on its basis. Its guilt through association. CIA busted for hypocrisy.