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CIA be like (lemmy.world)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

Letting the CIA develop a culture of criminality and invulnerability was a fucking mistake. Tear it down. Start over from the ground up.

Can that be done without negatively affecting their actual job of countering negative powers like Russia?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    Yes, absolutely. The culture of criminality and invulnerability is not even helpful to their job. Running drugs to fund black sites where they torture people for shits and giggles is not actually in any way vital to the purported functions of the CIA. More oversight would do them good.

    Unless you're asking if tearing it down and rebuilding it can be done without a period of reduced efficacy, in which case, no, that's a price that would have to be paid.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Nope. And their shenanigans killing some people isn't a problem on a bigger scale. They have done more good than evil and as long as it's a net positive its ok.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, I tend to agree. Especially now that Russia needs to be heavily contained.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They probably have done waaaay more good in the background but nobody notices because of the nature of it all. Russia isn't their only problem. China is more of a problem actually, Russia is just collapsing basically, the only thing to do there is gather intel and make plans to secure the nukes once their government fails (nobody needs Russian Warlords with nukes...)

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