BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- "I was the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) director. We lied, we cheated, we stole," then U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said when addressing Texas A&M University in April 2019. "We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment."
Pompeo's "confession" is only a glimpse of the gigantic U.S. intelligence system's ingloriousness, from the production of unsubstantiated intelligence that gave Washington pretexts to invade others to the engagement of assassinations, abuse of prisoners, wiretapping, and public opinion manipulation, among other things.
The shameful and deplorable record, while having long since shattered the credibility of the intelligence community a long time ago, has also laid bare its nature of serving at the pleasure of U.S. decision makers, regardless of truth, facts and human conscience, as Washington plays power politics and seeks to preserve a hegemonic position in the world.
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