I remember reading in the US code several years back a provision allowing the US govt. to test BW on americans without their consent as long as certain local leaders were notified.
I am a ultra conservative. I have been on FR a long time. Trust me what the CIA and FBI did back in the day under “for the good of the country” would astound you.
I'd bet they have a provision for anything and everything.
Back in my student days, when I was a Leftist, I believed the most outrageous things about the CIA. For example, there were rumored to be chambers deep beneath the Pentagon where they tortured student radicals, they dropped deadly chemicals on South American Indians to depopulate the area for (???) who knows why, or cares.
Now that I'm all grown up, I still can't dismiss what human nature can and will do with unchecked power. I do know that some Federal agency ran a brothel in South America, Peru I think, for 'information gathering purposes', LOL. Wish I had a nickel for every dollar wasted by our Federal overseers.