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I get a vibe of manufacturing consensus

I am an immigrant from China, I never trusted any intelligence community.

In a title, it implies there has been a time when the intelligence community was trusted (by who?)

I think this is mental manipulation from rand

The individuals who make up the IC are trustworthy* so it comes as a shock to them that on aggregate they are not.

*E.g. One group can be trusted with fair elections, another can be trusted to predictably obliterate a village without asking questions.

Who says that's true? I always thought the people who got hired were just easily controlled and had enough dirt on them that they'd never act outside of their interests.

They have the same problem finding good employees as everybody else. Adding too much on top of that means their org stalls.

The lizard-people type you seem to reference is actually quite rare.

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