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>Today they just sit at their desks and type reports like nice little bored bureaucrats.

What if they are just as evil and brutal today and we just don't know about it.

Just throwing this out here, but what if it's both. They, like every other nation in the world, are evil and brutal, and the vast majority of them are just sitting at desks somewhere doing fairly mundane jobs. That's just the nature of a modern intelligence agency I bet.



The trend has been to push the crazy research stuff into the private sector or universities and fund it through intermediaries / grants.

Not just the IC but in general.


Hannah Arendt wrote about this in The Banality of Evil.

Bureaucracies which create disassociation from accountability are necessarily evil.

So yeah, I'd imagine you're correct.




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