Bernie Sanders floated idea CIA was behind terrorist bombings in US

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., once suggested that the CIA might have been responsible for a series of domestic terrorist bombings in the United States.

Sanders, now 77, and lieutenant governor candidate John Franco disavowed the bombings but added “a charge that many such incidents may be instigated by government agencies to undermine legitimate efforts to bring about change,” according to a report in the Bennington Banner newspaper unearthed by the Daily Caller.

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