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What would it take to prove that CSIS is trustworthy?
by standeven 3y ago
What would it take to prove that CSIS is trustworthy?
- suoduandao3 3y agoCSIS as an institution acting against the interests of an entrenched governing party/oligarch bloc. Particularly if it leads to a change in leadership and they do it again. Yes, it's a high bar. Intelligence agencies have a lot to make up for.
- jameshart 3y agoState security services working to overthrow the governing authorities are not generally regarded as a sign of a healthy institutional culture
- suoduandao3 3y agoI think that's largely because in the US there's a bit of a civil war between different security services and the politicians they respectively back. Canada doesn't have enough discrete agencies that they can really factionate that way, they can either play nice with the government or inconvenience it if the public good is at stake. It's of course possible that they're playing nice because the government isn't encroaching on the guarantees in the charter of rights, and I hope that's the case, but it's not evidence of anything that they're playing nice.
- standeven 3y agoSo...you won't trust CSIS until they try to overthrow the government? Personally, seeing them operate equally well under multiple generations of opposing political parties in one of the most free countries on earth for 40 years, PLUS having no track record of misinformation, is more than enough reason to trust them.
- suoduandao3 3y agonot overthrow. Persecute individuals for crimes or publicize impolitic facts for the public interest.
- user3939382 3y agoWhat would it take to trust a bunch of spies in a secret organization?