> to shine a light into dark places of government spending
yes, I'm aware that this is the Official Position of the State. but quite obviously that is not what it is actually doing
That's information access, and yes, they are getting that, and that's not unexpected either. How else would they do their job?
My point stands.
It’s soft power, it’s influence. But not much more.
You defined power as soft power and now you want to say actually it’s hard power. It’s not. They can’t give anyone orders and impose consequences for not following them. That’s what hard power is.
well, they also demonstrably did this?
but I'm pretty done with this "conversation"