Oct 27 2005
Democracy via CIA/DIA/NSA?
Read this article on NYT: “Spy Agencies Told to ‘Bolster the Growth of Democracy’ ”
Summary:
Among other things, the strategy says that “collectors, analysts and operators” within the 15 American intelligence agencies should seek to “forge relationships with new and incipient democracies” in order to help “strengthen the rule of law and ward off threats to representative government.” The strategy, published on www.dni.gov, is unclassified, and the officials said it was not intended to apply in any way to any covert action that might be undertaken by the United States.
—Liberal democracy, rule of law can only exist in total transparency. The thought of having spy agencies to get involved is just stupid beyond comprehension.