NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with David S. Cohen, former deputy director of the CIA, about his piece in Foreign Affairs entitled “The Case for Economic Espionage.”
Foreign Affairs article archived at https://archive.ph/OH9Ev
Because that is basically part of their job.
I think you forgot a “should” in there.
Huh, I didn’t notice that originally, but that’s how the headline was written initially
More and more I’m coming to the opinion that national intelligence services of all countries should be completely dismantled and banned in a better world order. Having one should be seen in the same light as having a chemical weapons program.
Their entire purpose is at best to subvert international law for cynical gain, and more realistically they are an apparatus of state terrorism. Any supposed positive could be performed by regular law enforcement or Interpol.
