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*Sanctioned the use of torture in [[Abu Ghraib]] after taking it from Saddam Hussein.
 
*Sanctioned the use of torture in [[Abu Ghraib]] after taking it from Saddam Hussein.
 
*Orchestrating the warrant-less surveillance and internet monitoring seen in the [[NSA]].
 
*Orchestrating the warrant-less surveillance and internet monitoring seen in the [[NSA]].
*Spying on the Senate Committee<ref>http://www.cnet.com/news/cia-admits-to-spying-on-senate-computers/<ref/><ref>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-fenn/2014/03/05/cia-spying-on-the-senate-intelligence-committee-violates-the-law<ref/>, although typical of the agency, denying it first<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/accused-of-spying-on-congress-cia-director-tap-dances/<ref/>.
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*Spying on the Senate Committee.<ref>http://www.cnet.com/news/cia-admits-to-spying-on-senate-computers/</ref>.<ref>http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-fenn/2014/03/05/cia-spying-on-the-senate-intelligence-committee-violates-the-law<ref/>, although typical of the agency, denying it first.<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/accused-of-spying-on-congress-cia-director-tap-dances/<ref/>.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

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"CIA" can also refer to Christians In Action. This article is about the spooks.
Oh, so very threatening.

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Shhhh!!!

Piece of advice: Never refer to a CIA employee as an "agent." They are an "officer." The agents are the ones giving information to the officers.

The CIA is charged with providing all decision makers in the US with the intelligence needed to do so. It was set up to be the foreign intelligence agency for the United States; however, due to the fragmentary nature of the US political system, there were soon many, many others. Today, the CIA is just one of many intelligence services vying for resources and the attention of policy makers. Until this decade, however, the DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) was still considered the top figure in the intelligence field; after 9/11, Congress passed a law creating a new post above the DCI, the "Director of National Intelligence." In theory, the DNI is above all intelligence agencies, but is instead a (slightly) more glorified and (vastly) more removed Director of Central Intelligence, one more beholden to the White House than the actual CIA; the latter was pissed about this.

CIA and dirty tricks

The CIA admits that they have done some horrible things in the past; however, as justification, they can point to the fact that every covert action they've ever taken was approved by the President and that key members of Congress were always notified. (Some of those members of Congress dispute this.)

Actions known to have been done by the CIA:


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