I stumbled upon a question this topic arouses that more or less is not answered directly and I think it is worth to answer and to question. Here the question: Is the use of the same methods and structure's as the Terrorists making the governmental organisations a terrorist too or/and is the the purpose and the outcome of actions worht partial sacrifices of freedom? I think that's the main question here in focus and I think I'm not able to judge the CIA in there work because i don't know enough of their work. What I know is about the work and a scandal of my own country's Intelligence service the "BND" ( Bundes Nachrichten Dienst) Let me relate this scandal to you and see if it fits somehow to the question and to the CIA ( please seek out for yourself to see if there is something you can take out. After 09/11 and pre Iraq War II the CIA had not much intelligence in the region of the middle east and had to relay on other cooperating intelligence services until they build up their own net work of informants. Since the BND had loots of contacts in the middle east established the BND did suport the CIA intelligence in that region even the pre Iraq reconnaissance witch lead as it came out to a scandal because the Government was basically due to the unconfirmed mass destructions weapons against this war. in this scandal it came up that two of the BND employees in Iraq where also there to gather information about strategic targets but had further gathered intelligence on the whereabouts of possible sites of mass destruction weapons those infos where possible ( not fully proven) due to some mistake in translation or passing on information to the CIA the lead to the Iraq war II. As this came up i felled utterly shame, because we had not participated in the war openly, but had secretly not only supported it against the own governments desissions that risked a worse relation ship to the USA only, but we had also gathered possibly the wrong informations on mass destruction weapons that lead to the war. The uproar of the press and the to mild for my own personal feelings to Now i would like to ask you please to take the story and try to see the relation to the question above. and try to compare it with that of the CIA you know and please try to answer the question then for yourselves. For me it showed what happens when a governmental organisation works agains it's own government interests.
