Hot take incoming: Tom Cruise may be the best action star of all time. Likewise, Mission Impossible may be the best action series of all time. But despite the entertaining, competent, “good guy” government agent persona, Tom Cruise’s character “Ethan Hunt” would likely be a murderous psychopath in real life…

In reality, the CIA, FBI, NSA, MI6, and other clandestine agencies have a horrific track record of depraved inhumanity and downright incompetency. Let’s take a look at their dismal track records on this episode of Out of Frame.
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CREDITS:
Written by Sean W. Malone & Jen Maffessanti
Produced by Sean W. Malone
Edited by Michael Ozias
Asst. Edited by Abby Richardson
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LINKS:

– Foreign Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures –

https://www.theguardian.com/world/fro...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-c...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/us-al...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-6...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
https://fee.org/articles/10-terrifyin...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/1...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55340234
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...

– Domestic Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures –

https://www.theguardian.com/world/int...
https://fee.org/articles/mass-surveil...
https://fee.org/articles/6-things-we-...
https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/jfk_n...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020...
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us...
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989...
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.or...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8...
https://www.vox.com/videos/2022/2/2/2...
https://ips-dc.org/the_cia_contras_ga...
https://www.statista.com/chart/18417/...
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/gh...
https://government.defenceindex.org/#...
https://www.city-journal.org/html/hid...
https://www.freep.com/story/news/loca...
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articl...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/his...
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSA...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2600234
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...
https://www.9-11commission.gov/report...
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/dont-ignor...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010SIPZ8/...