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neutronicusyesterday at 2:22 AM1 replyview on HN

That's different from a dictatorship, though, especially if the CIA is not answerable to a supposed dictator.


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dragonwriteryesterday at 2:26 AM

> That's different from a dictatorship,

Its exactly equivalent to a dictatorship by the head of the CIA, unless the CIA is effectively answerable to some other authority despite not being answerable to the law, and then it is equivalent to a dictatorship by that higher authority.

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