Why not? Because they are “the good guys”?
Character assassination doesn’t count.
Have western intelligence services been implicated in something similar to FSBs domestic assassination program lately? No?
I do not believe this. Why do you think so?
Why not? Character assasination is far more effective than two bullets to the back of the head.
Character assasination is positive PR and a distraction. There’s no real way you can spin a “journalist who criticized the US government was found dead” story.
> Have western intelligence services been implicated in something similar to FSBs domestic assassination program lately? No?
Western intelligence services run torture camps and secret prisons all over the world. Just because they don’t have a domestic assasination program doesn’t make them any better.
Because murdering someone and making them look bad are not the same thing. Even children know this.
> Just because they don’t have a domestic assasination program doesn’t make them any better.
Why not? Is the argument here that western intelligence agencies do bad stuff at a bigger scale than the FSB and the MSS? I’d love to see evidence of that.
I think the truth is that western intelligence agencies face far more scrutiny. The FSB can (attempt to) murder leading opposition politicians without any meaningful domestic criticism, the same is absolutely not true of western services.