we infiltrated groups and subverted/sabotaged/betrayed their operations.
And that would not be so bad if its all that was done , but as they killed innocent people to maintain those operations the arguement justifying it falls apart .


The stevens report says nothing in its conclusion or recommendations to support what you say about the effectiveness of intelligence activities in NI.
so you are saying that he didn't say most of the arrested terrorists questioned by the inquiry turned out to be working for the British , he didn't say that the claim of having saved 200 lives turned out to be 2 lives , and he didn't say that Nelson who murdered around 30 people managed to kill mainly innocent people who were not in any way involved in terrorism .

Shame the same can't be said for his brothers....
True , but then again with one of the brothers woman wasn't it ruled in the courts that she had been unlawfully killed