We seek to understand the world, but it's made harder when part of it is hidden from us.
Leaked documents, represent a kind of ground truth, showing how the world really works. Telling us what's for sale, what the real agendas are, how powerful spies are, and how coordinated governments are. They are almost the opposite to conspiracy theories, as they present observations that can prune conspiracy theories.
But there are too many documents to read, so let's compare notes. What surprised you and caused you to update your view of the world?
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Re: CIA spying on the Senate.
Not exactly. "Spying" heavily implies that the CIA put together a plan to covertly steal emails or other info. This was much more like corporate IT when they say "No, we can't access your computer without your password." Well, yeah, they can. And they did, which was a no-no an still bad. But it was limited to a shared drive concerned with one tranche of declassified files. It wasn't the CIA reading senator's e-mails in real time.
One thing that I think should always be kept in mind when talking about FBI/CIA/NSA etc. is that they're still all massive bureaucracies and are, therefore, subject to a lot of least-common-denominators-in-massive-bureacracy outcomes. Not everyone at CIA is a spy. They have IT people who are probably just ... IT people with security clearances. They do dumb stuff because they're bored and dumb and not the one's who get to drink martinis in Monaco and split Uber Blacks with James Bond or whatever.
Interesting, that is different from what I was imagining. I didn't realise it was on CIA premises either.
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