Misuse of Pegasus Was Enabled by Governments Ignoring Calls to Reform Intelligence Agencies Since Independence, every Union government brushed aside opportunities to create oversight mechanisms which are common in other parts of the world. Illustration: The Wire Rights28/Jul/2021 When India won Independence, it had the choice of two models for its intelligence agencies. One was the United States’s version, which gave intelligence work a legal basis, insisting on accountability and transparency through a system of checks and balances. George Washington, one of the founding fathers of the US,...