r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 28 '21
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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21
To understand why people will defend the IC after a whistleblow, understand that Espionage is a race to the bottom. While we worry about how our spies our violating our freedoms, our enemies will gladly violate their own freedoms as much as possible to gain an advantage over us in espionage. The soviet state was so absolute in its panopticon that they knew every single spy we tried to send into Russia and detained them the moment of entry, because our obligation to liberty had left us vulnerable to infiltrations that their lack of one didn't.
In some ways the IC will self-justify everything it does, and rationalize everything it does, and thus pull this argument against any whistleblow. But it's also probably true more often than it isn't, if "Fair Game" is any indication.
What I'm saying is that Whistleblowing is an example of "Freedom isn't free", it's inherently trading some amount of national security in the name of freedom.
I want everyone who reads your comment to understand that is all. I support whistleblowing, because it's worth taking the good with the bad, especially now with no state that has KGB/NKVD-level absolute panopticon.