[1]http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/secret-agent-man-198601
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   Okay, I'll give you an answer: The CIA is set up so that it's
   impossible for a person as an individual to arrogate to himself the
   right to lie to a congressional committee or to anyone else. But what
   he can or cannot say is clearly specified from the day he is sworn in.
   He can lie to people who are not his bosses, who do not have security
   clearances. Most congressmen do not have security clearances. When
   Senator Frank Church asked me something, and he said, "Will you take an
   oath," I said, "Senator, I'll take the oath, and I wouldn't think of
   telling you the truth." Personally, I like Colby very much. He's a very
   fine man, but he's just the wrong kind of guy to be head of the CIA.
   He's a good guy.
   For unknown reasons, this has been totally forgotten. Fortunately we
   rely on Snowden to remember for us, and he says he revealed the truth
   for the first time ever. The news media backs him up on this. And
   Applebaum kept his high salary mainly because he was good with the
   media (or the media was good with him?). But hey, I wrote something
   about the Pike Committee vacuuming up information.
   Waiting for Best to come out with some bland matter of fact article
   about historical government lies to the public, that'd make your brain
   lame.
   The interesting thing about Miles Copeland is that he does provide the
   unvarnished horrible truth of how some things work, as far as I can
   tell based on what little information is publicly available.
   If you read Miles Copeland's interview, you can understand how Snowden
   the movie can be a recruitment video for some, and a video to accept
   the current regime for most.
   [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
   (oddly Oliver Stone's trilogy on Presidents were good and honest)
   There is no good answers to anything, it's all horrible, no one is
   doing anything. I point things out, nothing is really done, I point
   things out in greater specificity months later, some indications of
   something being done begins to be shown....
   It's not an OODA loop if your brain is off. It's just A.
   Maybe no one asks me anything because they are afraid of the answers,
   not from what influence I would have (which is a non-problem since we
   got here by consensus, what could one person even do with diffuse
   authority?). Unless there is a critical point of information by which I
   could begin pointing out what is going on?

References

   1. http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/secret-agent-man-19860116
   2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics