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> “Operating independently from its governments...” > Are the agencies involved not part of their governments? Am I missing something? In Britain we'd probably
by peteretep 8y ago
> “Operating independently from its governments...”
> Are the agencies involved not part of their governments? Am I missing something?
In Britain we'd probably make a distinction between elected government and civil service. I suspect the point being made here is of operation without sufficient legislative/executive oversight, which there seems to be at least some evidence for.
- shaki-dora 8y agoThey are, among other things, paid by the government. They are not independent of it, under no definition of any of those words. Maybe oversight is lax. Maybe oversight is perfect and everything happens exactly as the overseers want it. None of that changes anything about the truth of the initial claim. "Independent of" is patently false, and an obvious attempt to sensationalise.
- peteretep 8y ago> They are not independent of it, under no definition of any of those words Sure. But the words actually used were: "operating independently from", which is different.
- matt4077 8y agoYou cannot "operate independently from" without also "being independent from". And you're just proving that bad-faith accusation, and splitting hairs into finer and finer strands.
- peteretep 8y agoI don't agree with your first comment at all, but it sounds like a particularly dull semantics argument.