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malthaussen

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17. This is the problem...

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Wed Jan 21, 2026, 06:20 PM

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... the law and the training manual say one thing, but when the recruits are actually brought into the fold, they're taken aside and told how things are really done. And many senior agents joined before a lot of the legal restraints were put into place, and thus never were taught the rules in the first place.

The real and only rule is "We do whatever we can get away with," and the only way to stop it is to not let them get away with it.

-- Mal

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