She’s probably already compromised, or her staff are being handled by state department/cia, but maybe if enough people call she’ll at least be a bit more embarrassed. Worth a shot, because she’s not going away and her doing this shit is damaging.

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  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Where did I say she did a coup? She interned for a CIA front. They didn’t give her a fucking gun. But maybe just maybe she believed they were doing the right thing or thinks USAId is on the up and up? That’s the problem. That’s what makes her susceptible to their influence. Not because she was tasked with helping the opposition take over state media lmao

    And the Niger coup was one that didn’t have clearly defined good guys and bad guys, and if your notion of foreign politics and our place as an “ombudsman” is formed during such an event, maybe when a Bolivia happens and Bolivian opposition expats want a photo op, you take it... and then Venezuela, then Tibet, then Xinjiang, then Cuba, etc

    • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Where did I say she did a coup?

      You know what an insinuation is. "She interned for USAID during a coup in Niger for fucks sake. She is very very suspect." = insinuating she was involved in the coup.

      Not every employee in an organization like USAID is a CIA agent. The whole point of doing intelligence work through a cutout is that (1) you gain deniability by doing plenty of mundane stuff, too; and (2) people like college kids will think you're doing good work and not CIA stuff. It's beyond ridiculous to CIA-jacket every teenager who interned there. We can't entertain nonsense like this if we hope to get anything done.

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Sure there are college students who interned there who do NOT use their platform to be a useful idiot for imperial propaganda

        In other words, she’s suspect because of her actions and words given her background, not insinuation