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fandomsecrets2014-03-26 06:42 pm
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(Anonymous) 2014-03-27 02:41 am (UTC)(link)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.