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>Why is state intelligence even a thing? The military is capable of gathering all of the defensive intelligence that we need to protect ourselves. What are you
by lightbyte 9y ago
>Why is state intelligence even a thing? The military is capable of gathering all of the defensive intelligence that we need to protect ourselves.
What are you saying? The military IS the state.
- killin_dan 9y agoNot even close to the actual intelligence structure. The nsa doesn't have to answer to dod at ALL. Hurr durr the military is the state, you have no clue what you're talking about. I served for 6 years doing naval intelligence, sigint, and we never once heard from nsa, cia, fbi, etc. All our orders came from one of two generals in charge of our task force. Nuclear subs night have to work with intel agencies for technical purposes, but I never served on one.
- narrowrail 9y agoI don't have the experience you do, but all of the big violent acts we have had over the last 20 years that I remember were perpetrated by US citizens (except 9/11). I agree that we should not shape our laws based on edge-case criteria (e.g comic book villains), but their has to be some cross-state law enforcement.
- killin_dan 9y agoThen it should be a job for public servants and law enforcement, not a bunch of cowboys with unlimited xkeyscore power with nobody to answer to.