Obviously the CIA is getting some bad press from these leaks, but secret intelligence agencies don't seem to just dissolve when public opinion gets low. So what is the logical endgame for all of this, if the remaining leaks are everything they are rumored to be? Does the CIA get forcibly dismantled by the white house? Are they subject to congress? Do they just spin-off and rebrand themselves like the KGB did with the fall of the USSR?
The pessimist in me thinks nothing will happen, just like with snowden and the NSA. But I'm trying to be a little less cynical.
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oddjob ago
The end game is probably just to weaken the CIA. By exposing their tools, tech companies will work to fix the flaws that the CIA was exploiting. By fixing the flaws, the CIA is has less ways of spying, thus giving them less intel and fewer ways to intrude on people's privacy.