{"id":28512,"date":"2017-03-16T00:11:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T08:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28512"},"modified":"2017-03-23T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:42:37","slug":"what-does-the-cia-really-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/what-does-the-cia-really-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the CIA REALLY do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don&#8217;t just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there&#8217;s nobody to keep track of what they&#8217;re up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they&#8217;ll have something to report on. They&#8217;ve become &#8230; it&#8217;s become a government all of its own and all secret. They don&#8217;t have to account to anybody.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><a style=\"color: #ffcc00\" href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/blog\/truman-was-right-about-cia\" target=\"_blank\">&#8211;U.S. PresideNT Harry S. Truman, who created the CIA <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don&#8217;t just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there&#8217;s nobody to keep track of what they&#8217;re up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they&#8217;ll have something to report on. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28572,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28512\/revisions\/28572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28512"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}