For odd family reasons I have a lot of acquantances in SOCOM and intelligence orgs, and I've been around these sorts of people long enough to know that the vast

For odd family reasons I have a lot of acquantances in SOCOM and intelligence orgs, and I've been around these sorts of people long enough to know that the vast majority of them are well meaning and sincerely eager to do the right thing. But see, that's the problem: they're all employees, and they all report up the chain to an unelected appointee, far removed from any voting-based accountability. I don't think the trust will ever come back because I don't believe the government has the right incentives in place to restore trust. It only gets worse from here. And certainly nothing I've learned about them in the last 10 years would convince me otherwise.