I don't even know how to respond to this. The idea that the intelligence and military apparatuses follow the law to the T is absurd to me. Perhaps some facts

I don't even know how to respond to this. The idea that the intelligence and military apparatuses follow the law to the T is absurd to me. Perhaps some facts to the contrary: * The CIA and NSA conduct mass surveillance of the American public, contrary to the law [1] [2] * The CIA maintains illegal black sites with systematic torture [3] * The CIA made a request to execute a false flag against american citizens to start war with Cuba [4] * The CIA executes illegal assassinations and other covert operations [5] * The Pentagon has presided over many illegal wars and war crimes [6] [7] [1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-cia-acting-outside-law-spy-americans https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM [3] https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/guantanamo-transcripts-give-firsthand-accounts-cia-torture https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/guantanamo-transcripts-g... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods [5] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/12/21/do-we-need-the-cia/end-cia-covert-operations https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/12/21/do-we-need-... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes [7] https://www.resistance.org/illegal-us-wars https://www.resistance.org/illegal-us-wars