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Hey now, just because it can't be fixed doesn't mean it can't be better. The CIA is at a special level of dogshit. They can be less evil.
In theory, yes. In practice I can't imagine the political will exists to actually take down government-sanctioned criminal enterprises like the CIA. I think it would take something like a revolution to actually clean house at that level, and even that's a long shot because revolutions make things worse more often than not.
I think reforming the CIA from the ground up isn't impossible, though it'd require a great deal of political will. Going to punish the leaders though, that's probably a lost cause.
Are they not already less evil? All the stuff people criticize it about took place mostly 50+ years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_report_on_CIA_torture
No. It's really not.
Ahhh yes, I had forgotten about that. Pretty evil shit.