The Rise and Fall of the CIA | Sam Faddis

“The Rise and Fall of the CIA”
Sam Faddis
Author, _Beyond Repair: The Decline And Fall Of The CIA_

This speech was given on October 3, 2023, during a Hillsdale College CCA seminar on “U.S. Intelligence: History and Controversies.”
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Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.

The College also considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage finding its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law.

By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the aid of other friends of free civilization and thus secures the conditions of its own survival and independence.

[tonypanarese]

I'm sick of hearing that the taxpayers should not "confuse" the "rank-and-file" cia employees with those who have corrupted the agency. If one rank-an-file employee is aware of the corruption - and says NOTHING - then the entire agency is corrupt.

[imout]

Someone tell this guy the government has done this to every small business in America. Business owners spend tons of time paying fees and wasting tons of time trying to figure out if & how and what rules to be in "compliance". None of that busy work has anything to do with serving my customers or growing my business. It does raise the price of the products to the customer. Running business would be a breeze if it weren't for government bureaucracy.

[CharlesDeMar]

Incompetence breeds incompetence. It’s everywhere in US gov’t.

[mafirearmsafety]

Abolish all federal agencies not mentioned in our Constitution! We can live without them as we did before! A spinoff would be real tax relief!!!

[hairyjohn]

Nothing can fix this level of corruption. It's beyond repair!

[ngi_nr]

Without the cia we prolly wouldn’t have all the killer drugs that we have, as well as the awesome, wholesome culture we have. 😬

[stephanieromero]

He makes the company narrative sound neat & clean. He's full of controlled narrative and we're not buying what he's selling.
They don't believe we can handle the truth because they're afraid of the reaction. I'm so sick of these lies. Keep it.

[dohctorsmith]

Lost me at 3:15. “We need the CIA”, more like “We won’t survive the CIA”.

[ronaldlucas]

Sad times for the USA. CIA, FBI and DOJ

[Dumbluck]

I have a very hard time buying that CIA and Bush didn’t know 9/11 was coming. A very hard time.

[anniepal]

I am absolutely terrified of the future of America!!

[omearica-rcfp]

Wow! Hillsdale put this out? Who does the speaker and who does Hillsdale College think they are kidding? Insulting.

[tammyhavlik]

Once I heard that children have been compromised by the CIA to get information, no rebranding helps. And there are serious questions raised about CIA involvement in the Kennedy assasinations. So this is a lot of reframing involving many questionable events in an investigative organization that supercedes administrations.

[bobclifton]

He just described nearly every agency and department in Washington DC.

[wendybutler]

My aunt and uncle are both retired CIA. He is also vietnam era prior marine, before CIA. I'm astonished at how woke they are. They are doubling down on all the woke policy and extreme left leaning agendas...in their 70s!! I just dont understand it.

[michaelmisczuk]

Fallen country. Many reasons, this is one.

[rogerdorsey]

AND TO THINK WE THE TAX PAYER ARE FINANCING OUR OWN DEMISE.

[nojuice]

5 minutes in and cant take this seriously already.

[MidNightRider]

It's actually worse than you want to know.

[costrio]

For me, people who claim that the USA Rebublic is "our democracy" begs this question -- Can we have some of "your democracy" or is it just for the elite, maybe?