Freedom of Information provides a way for peeps to feel warm and cozy about their government acting unilaterally to ends deemed necessary by a small cadre of monkeys, while providing the mechanism for unchecked bullshit to continue unhindered.
OH, it also makes for marginally effective tabloid journalism, creating overnight sensations through banal, pompous delivery seasoned with an over-abundance of narcissistic swagger.

"CIA releases information"......Oxymoronic??! Haven't peeps with the ability to dissect newsspeak and "official statements" known that the CIA orchestrated the Iranian coup for over 30 years?

For the tiny morsels cretins like Cenk use to further distract increasing numbers of folks with regurgitate editorializing, the huge chunks of abuse of power sit rotting on a Nation's dinner plate, served nightly by whores of media everywhere. Cenk, yer a tool.

Voting-up radx's offering because hell, there's probably some folks here who never had a single thought about the reason Iran is the thorn in the side of the west that it is...Why is Iran a thorn a side of the west? Anyone?

The point is that this FOIA request produced the first official document to confirm the involvement of Allen Dulles and his spooks. The mere fact that the Brits and the Yankees were responsible for the coup is, of course, not news to anyone, or at least it shouldn't be.

If they presented some documents about, say, the installment of Suharto in Indonesia, it wouldn't be news either. But it would still be of interest to me.

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Robert Newman's History of Oil has been added as a related post - related requested by notarobot.

We've been torturing Iran for 60 years now. I wonder why a majority of them still like us.

Maybe the rock 'n roll or a limitless, unconnected eyebrow selection relative to breeding stock??

I somehow doubt most American's know much about Iran other than that its name is similar to Iraq.

I was talking with the salesman in Nordstrom's yesterday and I was talking about world war 2. He asked if that was the one with Hitler or if that was WWI.

*sigh*