Comment by sneak
2 months ago
I’m still always surprised that there are adults who think it is not.
The CIA, for example, is entirely above the law.
2 months ago
I’m still always surprised that there are adults who think it is not.
The CIA, for example, is entirely above the law.
That's different from a dictatorship, though, especially if the CIA is not answerable to a supposed dictator.
> 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.
> 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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The CIA can’t rule by edict.
Being above the law is necessary but not sufficient to be a dictator.
We also don’t know enough about the internal politics of the CIA to assert much about the head of the CIA.
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