Bill Moyers reporting on "Secret Government"

Secret agencies are known to be a necessary component of governments these days, be it the CIA of the US, ISI of Pakistan, RAW of India, Mosad of Israel, GRU of Russia and so on. Ideally speaking, there very existence is contrary to truely democratic spirit of nations, since what/how they do is meant to be hidden from the very people they represent, by definition.

However, even if we were to accept their existence on 'pragmatic' grounds despite their moral dubiousness, then the question becomes, where do we draw the line of what should be off limits even for these secret organizations?

As horrendous as things are that are reported in this 1987 video about Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Vietnam and others, it's no consolation that things have only gotten progressively worse since then. In today's context, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan are the 'hot topic' of political discussions. Ironically enough, CIA blames Pakistan's ISI for playing "double game" with the Taliban and the US, conveniently keeping silent over the latter's concerns over her largest rival's, India, newly found rapprochement with Afghanistan.

Secondly, while Obama has declared Iran to be a critical concern to "Middle East's, especially Israel's security", it was the CIA in 1953 that overthrew a perfectly legitimate and democratically elected government of Mosaddeq, leading to a religoius revolution in the country, resulting in today's Iran. All because Mosaddeq wanted to keep Iran's wealth to her own people by ending forgein oil companies' hegemony on their soil? Can we imagine what Iran would be today, had CIA not meddled in their affairs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sstDwKTCpM