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The U.S. has 95% of the world’s foreign bases. It also has scores of ships sailing around the world with nuclear weapons. Then there are the 4,154 military bases in its 50 states and 114 in its territories. It allows no foreign bases on its territory. (See David Vine’s book Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World”)
With civil liberties now on the line, the revolving door that exists between the U.S. intelligence and private sector needs to be closed down.
The CIA’s Inspector General report on torture and abuse as well as the Senate intelligence committee’s report remain classified and hidden in various governmental vaults.
While Snowden was camping in the airport, the US apparently received what it thought was a tip that Snowden was being granted asylum in either Cuba or Bolivia and that he would be spirited out of Russia on the Morales presidential plane, which was bring him home from a summit meeting he’d attended with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
