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All of them. When you come to work at a government agency, you learn the tasks and procedures. For the most part, those tasks and procedures carry on regardles
by a3n 11y ago
All of them.
When you come to work at a government agency, you learn the tasks and procedures. For the most part, those tasks and procedures carry on regardless of who's in the legislature. Sometimes things do change because of legislation, but mostly policies and practices that were developed inside the bureaucrat's building continue on. Employees come and go, but the manual lives on.
In the case of spy agencies it's even worse, because the legislators have almost no idea what the tasks, policies and procedures are, other than the top veneer that spies choose to share with their overseers. They were truly developed in a vacuum of oversite.
- icanhackit 11y agoEmployees come and go, but the manual lives on. That's a really interesting perspective. Like an algorythm with a relative threat detection system as opposed to a fixed threat level. So when a major threat disappears, the next largest threat is in its sights. What happens when the next relative threat is a guy buying some drugs from a dealer? The manual is SkyNet for wetware.
- anon4 11y agoYou could look at the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA as an attempt at getting the manual right once and for all. Unfortunately it seems the manual that survives is the one that best guarantees its own survival. Fancy how that works.