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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 3:54 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Its exactly equivalent to a dictatorship by the head of the CIA

No it's not. I can commit all manner of illegal acts in my home unnoticed, that doesn't make me a dictator.


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dragonwriteryesterday at 5:46 AM

Yes, and if the hypothetical were that the CIA was effectively outside of control of the law for actions committed in private by CIA personnel in their homes, then the conclusion would be different (even though an agency the scale of the CIA would still have different implications than an individual even then), but that wasn't the hypothetical under discussion, which had much fewer—as in zero—qualifications on the CIA’s lack of accountability.

Analogies don't work when they aren't analogous.

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sneakyesterday at 5:19 AM

The CIA ran torture prisons, got caught, then there was a congressional inquiry, and they hacked into the computers of the congresspeople to delete the evidence of torture.

Then they got caught hacking congressional computers to delete evidence.

Nothing happened to them.

They are above the law. You are not.

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