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Whats to stop that intelligence agency for the people from becoming just as corrupt as the current 3 letter ones?

• thr0waway1239 10y ago
  This question has come up before in the context of governing bodies before (e.g. legislature vs executive). The usual answer is that we do our best to create checks and balances, because there is no good answer to your question. Note: I am not saying that the existing system of checks and balances are actually doing any checking or balancing in any country presently. I am just suggesting that it is usually what we can aspire to.
• hx87 10y ago
  The current ones aren't corrupt as much as eager to overstep their bounds in order to perform their designated tasks. If the proposed agency has the same problem, that's a feature, not a bug.
• mindcrime 10y ago
  That's a fair question. I think thr0waway1239 basically said what can be said about it. It's down to checks and balances. Right now, we have nearly unlimited State surveillance with little work to counter-balance that. So I would think anything that serves the end of transparency and "undersight" would be a positive simply by balancing out the current state of affairs. I feel like we'd have to go a VERY long way before things flip-flop and the problem goes the other way. But I could be wrong, and just to be clear, this isn't something where I've sat down and planned out a detailed proposal or anything. It's more an idea that's been stirring on my mental "back burner" for a while, but has never been fully fleshed out.
• jethro_tell 10y ago
  We'll make it a 4 letter agency, one of the letters will be 'h' for honest.