This story of female secret service agents breaking into a hair salon and using it for several hours for their own convenience is emblematic of America's decline: the decay of the institutions, the contempt for private property and the elevation of female vanity over individual rights and freedoms. The agents picked the lock, covered the cameras and then left the premises unlocked once they had finished https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyHf2idmgLY
@SamHarris
Actually this kind of stuff is not new and male secret service agents can do similar things
Read
the Spy and His Master
And CIA Family Jewels
CIA Family Jewels explains having to deal with this kind of scandals having happened where agents did illegal things for personal gain
The Spy and His Master warns about how this kind of thing can happen & how to consider the possibility based on their motivation when selecting agents
There is no type of motivaton that prevents problems
@shortstories I'll have to have a look at those. Sounds interesting. As I said, it's emblematic of our current era.
It is actually
The Spy
And
His Masters
By Christopher Felix
Published 1963
not
the spy and his master
It is by the AFIO which might be the Association of Former Intelligence Officers
Here is a link to it
If it is in audiobook that might be better if you search around
Here is CIA family Jewels from archive dot org you can also find it on multiple government websites
https://archive.org/details/CIAFamilyJewels/mode/2up
The thing about it is there are a lot of blank pages and marked up censored pages and pages with very little text then there are some pages with lots of text in between
So I kind of skimmed it and looked for the pages that are full of text to read like in a normal book & then skimmed them I skipped a lot of pages I did not understand when I read it years ago
@SamHarris
My understanding of that book
People are motivated by ideology or selfishness
Someone motivated by ideology will be very loyal to the agency as long as it lines up with their ideology then go against the agency
Someone motivated by greed or selfishness will use their position to do things that lead to scandals like using their position to do illegal activity for personal gain
Either way they will not be loyal to following the agencies directives in a way that makes it look good