> I can’t help but reflect how much of the tragedy, conflict, and war in human history has been caused by these agencies run amok. A relatively small amount mo

> I can’t help but reflect how much of the tragedy, conflict, and war in human history has been caused by these agencies run amok. A relatively small amount most likely. Maybe on par with the amount that has been caused by yellow journalism (e.g. the Spanish-American war, anti-ethnicity political cartoons). Most of anything "caused" by them is not from them running amok, but from them doing the job they were ordered to do by higher officials. And, of course, we only rarely see what they prevented from happening.