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You can’t win 100% of the time, so you’ll miss some and people will be rightfully mad you missed
You also can’t talk about most wins or - more frequently - events prevented/mitigated
Finally, it only takes a few bad actors in the govt to destroy long term public trust and we’ve had decades of lackluster at best leadership
So add all that up and there’s never going to be positive news about the IC
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You can’t win 100% of the time, so you’ll miss some and people will be rightfully mad you missed
You also can’t talk about most wins or - more frequently - events prevented/mitigated
Finally, it only takes a few bad actors in the govt to destroy long term public trust and we’ve had decades of lackluster at best leadership
So add all that up and there’s never going to be positive news about the IC