Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read
It should be possible, shouldn’t it, for citizens to hold both ideas simultaneously, that our security agencies have both committed abuses, and are also critical for maintaining a free nation? In the same way that we can criticize police shootings without being reflexively anti-police?
Trump only “forces” opponents to uncritically cheer the CIA, if those opponents have a childishly Manichean viewpoint.
It was the same FBI, wasn’t it, that both prosecuted the Klan, and persecuted MLK?The same CIA that overthrew Allende, but warned us of Bin Ladin?
Sometimes, the enemy of my enemy is also an enemy of the Republic.
