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A world in which organizations like these are looked upon with the utmost contempt is the better one. When judging another nation's civilizational status (ie. is it a banana republic), in the future we should include how regulatorily contained these agencies are.

Checks note: Just about every western news outlet, privately and publicly funded, is quoting "NGOs" like Bellingcat, Freedom House, Transparency International or the "Atlantic Concil's Digital Forensics labs" as if they weren't the CIA cutouts that they are.

I think we're good!