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Not that I want to defend any intelligence organisation but war is not a binary thing. Other countries might be harming your country even without you knowing it
by samsonradu 10y ago
Not that I want to defend any intelligence organisation but war is not a binary thing. Other countries might be harming your country even without you knowing it. Agencies try to prevent that from happening.
- fwn 10y agoWho knows? They are certainly not going to tell. Secret services are rather secret about their services.
- samsonradu 10y agoIndeed, who knows. But would it benefit the country if they released their ops reports?
- fwn 10y agoNot an expert, but as secret stuff gets leaked it tends to create huge public discourse and leads to political action. Knowledge about their actions does seem to have an effect on the country. Secret service staff would probably not necessarily evaluate it as a good effect though.
- samsonradu 10y ago> Knowledge about their actions does seem to have an effect on the country. Can you give me an example? Take the latest Wikileaks Vault thing for instance. That was a leak that created public discourse, what was the effect? I still don't trust my iPhone and pretty much most of the software I use, were any 3 letter agency looking to get me.