2016-04-01 The CIA and the Pentagon Are Shooting at Each Other

2016-04-01 The CIA and the Pentagon Are Shooting at Each Other
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Not so very long ago, Dick Cheney announced with his bare face hanging out that the vice president's office was not part of the executive branch of the federal government. He coughed up this preposterous hairball because he didn't want to give his official papers to the National Archive, as is required by several federal laws.
On that blissfully innocent June day in 2007, I believed that we as a nation had summited the Mount Everest of assholery, planted Cheney's flag in a gritty crust of snow and watched as that bloody banner fluttered in the air-starved breeze...
Such was my age of innocence. I believed with my whole heart that the arc of ridiculous had kissed the very ceiling of the sky. I was comprehensively wrong...

The CIA and the Pentagon Are Shooting at Each Other

There are two militias duking it out in Syria, and the US government is funding them both simultaneously.

TRUTH-OUT.ORG|BY WILLIAM RIVERS PITT