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Who, exactly, is responsible for the FBI, CIA, NSA, et al. if they over-reach?

We tend to believe there's an implicit checks-and-balances system in place, but the most dramatic historical time time a government official wanted to defund a secret-holder of the government was JFK.

In other words, how is this not a quiet dictatorship by another name?




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