• prole [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    And they 100% definitely totally stopped in 1975 and never did it again

    From 1996

    speaking before a Senate intelligence committee, CIA director John Deutch testified recently that the spy agency could waive the ban in cases of “unique and special threats to national security.”

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      Im glad no unique or special events relating to the national security of the united states of ameriKKKa happened following 1996. now time to go look at my favourite pair of skyscrapers

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      in cases of “unique and special threats to national security.”

      Oh, so all the time then.