Comment by WillAdams
1 year ago
Yeah, but back when there was actually an ethos of morality, there were certain lines which weren't crossed:
- no use of religious/academics/medical practitioners as cover identities
- no high-level clearances to people who had ties overseas and might be vulnerable to blackmail/coercion
Somehow that all went out the locks during the "War on Terror" and I would gladly vote for and donate to a candidate who would make an issue of instances where the above moral considerations were ignored and operations which I would view as war crimes were perpetrated.
It's not worth winning any war at the cost of the moral high ground.
> when there was actually an ethos of morality, there were certain lines which weren't crossed
Uh, what? Could you perhaps tell this to the Catholic Church, who DEFINITELY used their capacity as religious leaders to spy on the Japanese on behalf of the Portuguese around, I dunno, the year 1600?
This is simply the easiest answer I could recall because I just watched Shogun.
This limit you’re describing only exists in your head.
The context was the CIA, which used to have such guidelines.