Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
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People tend to see power carried out by conspiracy. It's easy to believe in.
It's not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate. It's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known.
People have different relationships with power. I suppose a large portion of the 'Homeland' audience aligns with the U.S., sort of against the enemies. We certainly have the CIA viewpoint on the world - and it's their job.
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11.
I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.
All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.
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