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I have very different feeling a about the FBI compared to everyone else precisely because their track record has given me reasons to suggest that they have way
by mdhb 2y ago
I have very different feeling a about the FBI compared to everyone else precisely because their track record has given me reasons to suggest that they have way less oversight than others but the picture is actually pretty nuanced and you’re just throwing out random shit here that there’s nothing really to have a conversation about other than I think you should actively look into the checks and balances in place within the IC because even though HN likes to pretend that it’s totally unaccountable and they will go after anyone that just isn’t true at all.
- lupusreal 2y agoThey all lie to congress with impunity. The courts don't hold them accountable. They think themselves above the executive. They are completely out of control but you seem to think they're all squeaky clean except for the FBI? There is literally zero rational reason to believe that, because there are no effective mechanisms for making them honest. The CIA once proposed to commit terrorist attacks on American soil to create a justification for war a against Cuba. JFK turned them down but was anybody in the CIA ever punished for it? Hell no, and there is reason enough to think they may have even murdered him for that rejection. Even if you don't believe that, none of them have ever been punished for their abuses and there has never been reform.