The CIA knew that it couldn't accomplish this type of overt paramilitary mission without direct Pentagonparticipation -- and committed that to paper and then went ahead and tried it anyway.
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It's not only justice, it's poetic justice. The corruption scandal broke the back of his supporters.
This is probably the most important newspaper capitulation since the New York Times yielded to John F. Kennedy's call for them to not run the full story of planning for the Bay of Pigs. By withholding the country names, the Post is directly enabling the rendition, secret detention, and torture of prisoners at these locations to continue. That is a ghastly responsibility.
The history of the U.S. role in bringing Pinochet to power is also one that needs to be fully aired, fully digested and then left as history so that we can move on as a country.
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