[ SECRET POST #2640 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2640 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Context, OP?

I wonder sometimes if people want to join the CIA because of Hollywood portrayals. I hope that isn't the case for you, OP. Most jobs in the CIA and all the other alphabet soup agencies are pretty mundane. You read stuff, you write about what you read, you send it on for someone else to read so they can write about what you wrote, they send it on...

[(Anonymous)]

If you see anything that screams "people are about to blow up a building", you sit on it 'til afterwards and then submit it onwards with a recommendation for a budget increase and more strikedowns of freedom of speech, movement, protest, and privacy. That is the CIA way. It is all about protecting the agency's budget and reach...and maybe lives somewhere waaaaaaay down the list of priorities.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget recommending the passing of blatantly unconstitutional laws, harassing minorities, harassing religious people, harassing pacifists, harassing dissenters, and using terroristic techniques to keep the agency alive and well-funded at all times...

I doubt protecting lives is even on their radar. They're too busy ruining them.

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NAYRT

That's... not really accurate? I mean, I'm no big fan of the US government in a lot of ways, but I think it's pretty unfair to the thousands of people who work for the CIA-- both in the NCS and outside it--and do so because they want to bring their intelligence to solve interesting and important problems and help the country to just say the CIA is exclusively this evil conglomerate of conspiracies.

I mean. Come on. Yes, there are people who do shitty stuff with the power afforded them by their positions. But there are literally thousands of people doing any number of jobs. They don't sit around secretly devising plots to pass crappy bills through Congress. (Congress does a good enough job on their own.)

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AYRT

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Do you honestly believe that the CIA and agencies like it are beneficial to a free society? If so, how can you justify an agency with such little oversight / control and such poorly-thought-out policies having as much power as they do, not only in the US, but covertly around the world? How do you justify their ongoing history of racist and sexist actions? How can you justify an "intelligence" agency whose directorship is based more on political favor than on suitability to the post, or proven results?

On that note, how does the CIA justify itself to the American people? What benefits are we getting from this organization? What tangible, reportable evidence do we have of the majority of their actions? Anyone can say "I foiled a terrorist." But if I say "I foiled a terrorist" or "I dismantled a cartel" or whatever, and can't back it up with evidence, how do you know I'm not making up nonsense and pinning it on the nearest foreigner?

And if someone is actively engaged in working to restrict my freedoms of speech and movement and expression, than they ARE doing shitty stuff with the power afforded them. Intelligence workers who "only" tap phones, for example, are not innocent of the privacy abuses committed by the agency. They're helping to perpetrate them.

Yes, a lot of these people are just people with jobs who are trying to do what they think is the right thing. That doesn't make their organization any less dangerous. That does, on some level (it's debatable how much), make them complicit and responsible for their actions.