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Does legality matter to the CIA? What entity could bring meaningful complaints against them?
by skyyler 4y ago
Does legality matter to the CIA?
What entity could bring meaningful complaints against them?
- yodon 4y agoSee for example [0] [0]https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/prosecutions.php https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra...
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- the_optimist 4y agoSumming punishment across all of history would probably total an upscale automobile, zero prison.
- nonethewiser 4y agoThat example is the government prosecuting the government for harming the governments interests. Thats not accountability, its infighting. Accountability would be punishment for crimes against the American people and structural changes that prevent it from happening again.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoCongress could defund them or perhaps even shut the whole org down. But I have to imagine a congressman that starts snooping around what the CIA is up to will almost certainly end up mired in mysterious controversy, accusations of malfeasance, etc.