Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield
by thinkingemote on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:31AM
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It also allows civilian police informers (e.g. actual criminals) to kill on their orders too.
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Re:State sanctioned secrecy: NSA's criminality shield
by pjc50 on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:25AM
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This was, in effect, always the case in Northern Ireland. The overlap between the UVF, the RUC, Special Branch, and the armed forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings and Pat Finucane, for example.
At the end of the war in the late 90s the Blair government issued effectively blanket pardons for a lot of crime from both sides.