I remember listening to the director of the FBI’s international office. He was bragging about bureau’s worldwide effort to “fight terror.”
“In the United States, the founding fathers and their sucessors,” he said, “were very concerned about tyranny so they creating mulitple law enforcement agencies to prevent the accumulation of too much executive authority in too few hands. And today, we have over 50 federal law enforcement agencies.”
“I find your comment interesting,” I said, “because dictatorships also create multiple security agencies to prevent coups.”
Silence.
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