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“now”? At what point has there been good accountability of secret services? Given what we know of their history it has arguably been even worse before. Perhaps
by audunw 1y ago
“now”? At what point has there been good accountability of secret services? Given what we know of their history it has arguably been even worse before.
Perhaps some smaller countries have had secret services with an apparently clean record (would be hard to know for sure) at some point. But that could be more a matter of luck with who was in charge and hired at that point.
- greatgib 1y agoIt is new, for both secret services and politics, there use to be a principe of honor and respectability. Once exposed to bad behaviors, people where quitting by themselves or heads being chopped because of the public shame. Now the people involved will keep their position till the end, doing whatever needed and whatever the cost to not move despite being convicted or close to it. To me, this is new in the last decades. Look at Nixon with the Watergate, nowadays, same with Trump, the guys will just say "and so what?" And things will continue like if it was nothing. Same in UK, same in France, ...