> The social distance between people working for spy agencies and people who vocally criticize and oppose the spy agencies is tiny. That sort of makes sense to

> The social distance between people working for spy agencies and people who vocally criticize and oppose the spy agencies is tiny. That sort of makes sense to me? The average member of the public doesn't generally think about what spy agencies do. If you assume that recruitment is based more on topical proximity than positive/negative opinion, that's what you'd expect to see.