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However CIA also pushes their own agenda like Timber Sycamore, a secret operation lobbied by CIA director David Petraeus, to overthrow President Assad of Syria, that led to a war that created a humanitarian disaster.

President Obama signed off the operation, however it was a CIA creation & execution, with the help of Arab intelligence.

CIA does way more than lying and propaganda. They create wars too.

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> "CIA does way more than lying and propaganda. They create wars too."

No one is saying they don't create wars. Look into the School of Americas for all the death and destruction the CIA caused in Latin and South America. The CIA was also first on the ground in both Afghanistan and Iraq post-9/11. But that's not what we're talking about here.

We're talking about a CIA report on a subject of importance to the president. The CIA isn't going to release that report without sign-off from the top brass, all of whom serve at the pleasure of the president.

The Syrian Civil War had started before that. The CIA was picking sides for the US, just like every other geopolitically relevant country.

The CIA trying to overthrow Assad is good though, the humanitarian disaster is his fault, and Putin's.

None of it is "propaganda".

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