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> This is an exemplary example of what I dub "Institutionalized Insanity". Whereby, no matter how sane and well-meaning, ethical and honest the individuals in an organization may be, the gross product of the organization as a whole cannot help but be a warped and perverted form of its intentions.

I'd like to recommend a book to you called Moral Mazes, which was written by a sociologist on this exact topic. Its writing is fairly academic, but well worth the read if you can digest it. Aaron Swartz referred to it as one of his favorite books.

This guy is really confused. He is a devout anti-climate-change conspiracy theorist decrying the abuse of powers of scientists (97% of those pesky, bought-out scientists), but wants more money for a closed intelligence society that builds consensus without any oversight, and has been caught dead-to-rights for selling drugs to earn money for blackops projects for decades. The CIA is in fact the worlds biggest drug dealer (NSA/FBI/DEA being enablers-local distributers). Cognitive dissonance of neocons is so astounding that we should give grants to extract alternative energy from it.

• The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
  
• Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
  
• Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press
  
• Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs