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How do you KNOW the CIA wasn't paying for that bug to be prolonged?
Same question about epistemology: how do you KNOW God is/isn't real? How do you know this isn't a simulation with a system administrator who can supplant causation that is capable of being proven scientifically?
You live in a police state. The CIA routinely breaks the law for purposes they deem necessary. It's a possibility they were exploiting the bug for their purposes. This is the reality we live in. But this gets dismissed by charismatic figures in the news so the average person never truly considers it. Operation Mockingbird was FIFTY years ago, proving the agency is not just lying to the American public but actively breaking the law to do so. Why not this?