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Sure, it absolutely has, and the CIA and American foreign policy has done some truly awful things. But there's scale and scope as well; the American gov't, by and large, hasn't been jailing political dissidents solely for political dissent since the 30s or so. Political dissidents don't tend to end up committing suicide by falling out of 1st floor windows, or drowning in bathtubs. We don't arrest or dissappear anyone running against the president. We haven't had concentration camps for our own citizens since the 40s (and hoo boy, those were pretty fucking awful, and we should be ashamed of them).