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Anyone who works in intelligence is evil and should leave and find a career in the private sector, but I won't hire them because they're evil and previously wor
by rhexs 9y ago
Anyone who works in intelligence is evil and should leave and find a career in the private sector, but I won't hire them because they're evil and previously worked in intelligence!
Thankfully resume sorting is effectively already an entirely random process, so I hope this comment doesn't bother anyone too much.
- yters 9y agoShould we have no intelligence agencies? A better approach is to populate our intelligence agencies with good people, instead of leaving it up to incompetent/bad people.
- someguydave 9y ago>Should we have no intelligence agencies? Why not? It would get rid of a big excuse for governments to conceal things from their citizens, who supposedly oversee them. If someone in the government needs to find something out, they could always just pay someone to do it on a contract basis.
- yters 9y agoHow do we keep secrets from enemies while telling all secrets to our citizens? Such an idea does not seem to live in the real world.
- someguydave 9y agoWait, which is the greater good? Keeping government secrets or holding the government to account? To me, the latter is obviously better.
- yters 9y agoCertainly, and the government has much abused its secret keeping ability. But, sometimes secrets matter. One example I know of is we had almost captured Osama Bin Laden in Tora Bora by tracking his cell phone. Then, a senator told the media we were tracking his cell phone, and we lost him, dragging on the war for many more years. Or, during WW2 if Germany had known we'd cracked Enigma, we would have lost a tremendous advantage. And, if the Germans had stolen our nuke technology and beat us to the bomb drop, the war could have turned out totally differently.