[btat1-2]

Because I am not American, I can answer "yes" without reading the text.

[mcculley]

Yeah, the article does not make clear what it means by “good”. What is good for the U.S. is not necessarily good for global humanity or the promotion of liberal democracy.

[stephen_g]

Yes, basically exactly what I came here to say.

[yieldcrv]

I’m an American and very familiar with the intelligence community and this articles is mindblowing just in the first five paragraphs

It is basically about 18 US intelligence agencies

While maybe 3 of them, the CIA being one, get any attention

[btat1-2]

Because I'm not a native English speaker, it's too hard to understand what they say.