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I'm happy to see them "held accountable" in a number of senses, but this is mostly just Cold War security culture stuff to try to mitigate the impact of Soviet spying on U.S. spy agencies. It doesn't seem to be encouraging the viewer to be more aggressive, ambitious, extralegal, deceptive, or whatever.

The mission patches that Trevor Paglen has collected are like 80 times creepier to me. They remind me of "His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono; / imperium sine fine dedi."




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