Morphic Tide
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You are not allowed to disprove the opposition on this. You are literally forbidden from clearing the IC's name on the matter. I, frankly, give not a single goddamn fuck about the spygame bullshit you get into, because the core tenants of how the United States is meant to operate include transparency and accountability.I'd you think the IC is a bigger threat, you are mistaken.
All your talk of Snowden making your job onerous? Your fucking fault for relying on opaque spygame bullshit. Your fucking fault for having zero public accountability. What's the use of official channels when the official channels are, themselves, built for the opaque spygame bullshit?
The literal sole way of reliably assuring the whistle is in fact blown is throwing it in public, in bulk, the way Snowden did. Because, as you've made rather clear, every single layer of how this is "supposed" to be handled is to be kept as secret as remotely possible. The mechanisms of accountability give no notice of rejection, unlike the entire rest of the government.
If the "official channels" have any problems with them, can you honestly say that you'd have any realistic ability to know without breaking procedure? Can you say, with certainty, that you can personally verify the official channels work as intended?
Russia's close to a rump state compared to the USSR, and China could be completely obliterated in literally a week with fuck-all consequences. If China is actually an existential threat, and your lot are doing their jobs properly, why isn't China being sanctioned into the ground? It'd kill their viability as any kind of threat, while being a remarkably mild inconvenience in the grand scheme of things to us.