Something should be said about the radicalization/brainwashing that security personnel in the GCHQ/NSA/&etc. services must endure in order to keep their jobs.

Something should be said about the radicalization/brainwashing that security personnel in the GCHQ/NSA/&etc. services must endure in order to keep their jobs. I'm familiar with a few folks in this industry, and what they have been through - in the form of an internal training regimen designed to condition them for their positions - can only be described, at best, as brainwashing. They're given repeated exposure to highly graphic videos depicting the results of terrorist activities. They're exposed to extremely highly polished videos and presentations on the subject of attacks against Western society. They're expected to demonstrate that they can handle these artifacts and still maintain their position on posts that will be secret, and highly sensitive. All the while, they are expected to continue their embedded lives in these societies. A great deal of psychological manipulation is required to keep these people in their positions - it is not nearly well enough scrutinized by the public, in my opinion. Those who give themselves the right to psychologically program the security operatives who maintain that terror is the #1 reason for the usurpation of civil rights, must be investigated further by the public at large. There is much radicalization occurring within the halls of GCHQ that is highly offensive to our western values and society at large suffers when these secret psyops are allowed to continue to occur within the inner circles of security power. That it has become industrialized as a means of producing "qualified personnel" is something that must, without question, be addressed by the public at large - too much trust is being placed in people whose principle job is to manipulate the psychology, and thus the motivation, of the military-industrial security elite.