Nanomerce @lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 1 year agoCIA Rulelemmy.worldimagemessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1458arrow-down10
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minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoThey named that building after George H. W. Bush, a former president and director of the CIA. Makes sense to me.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoYeah the guy who was the head of the CIA during that whole Oliver North thing and no one remembers that… right?
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoPepperage Farm remembers. And so do I. I was in my late teens and didn’t have enough context to understand it then. But I do now.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoYeah, but given what we know now about him and his son, keeping the name is almost a tenth as bad as the FBI headquarters still being named after abuse of power pioneer J. Edgar Hoover…
They named that building after George H. W. Bush, a former president and director of the CIA. Makes sense to me.
Yeah the guy who was the head of the CIA during that whole Oliver North thing and no one remembers that… right?
Pepperage Farm remembers.
And so do I. I was in my late teens and didn’t have enough context to understand it then. But I do now.
Yeah, but given what we know now about him and his son, keeping the name is almost a tenth as bad as the FBI headquarters still being named after abuse of power pioneer J. Edgar Hoover…