We examined unclassified Central Intelligence Agency documents and
historical academic research on U.S. interventions to identify 27 U.S.
clandestine operations carried out between 1949 and 2000.
Most U.S. “secret wars” were against other democratic states.
(…)
Our analysis further confirmed that the
United States was substantially more likely to use clandestine coercion against
citizens of democratic states.
Mariya Y. Omelicheva, Ryan
Beasley and Christian
Crandall
Why do democratic governments so often engage in violent covert actions?
The United States is roiled by controversy over Russia’s broad covert
operation to undermine the legitimacy of the 2016 presidential election and
Western democracy in general. But the U.S. government has interfered in other
democracies’ decisions with violent clandestine operations that go back
generations.
During the George W. Bush administration, the American public learned
about post-9/11 covert actions that many found disturbing, including secret memos authorizing torture of terrorist suspects; a highly secretive program of “extraordinary
renditions,” which involved the government-sponsored capture and
transfer of detainees from U.S. jurisdiction to other states without due legal
process for purposes of detention and interrogation; and “black sites,”
or secret prisons operated by the CIA.
But as our research
has found, those operations were a continuation of U.S. policy, not a break
with it.
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Para continuar a leitura, acesse https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/20/the-u-s-has-a-long-history-of-hacking-other-democracies/?utm_term=.e154cb4c5011
Mariya Y. Omelicheva, Ryan Beasley and Christian
Crandall – 20.12.2016.
IN Monkey Cage, Washington Post.
