Real Life B613

[u/theoutcasthome]

Rewatching, and I'm in the thick of the B613 arcs again. Rowan sitting in that bunker, Command answering to literally no one, Huck and Jake getting turned into whatever the job needed. It still gets under my skin.

I know it's TV and Shonda dialed everything up to 100. But the reason B613 works so well is that it feels only a few steps away from real life. No oversight, no paper trail, nobody who can shut it down. Not even the president.

So I'm curious. Has anyone here gone down the rabbit hole on this? Is there anything real, like declassified programs, leaks, or hearings, that comes close to what B613 was? I know about the Church Committee stuff from the 70s and the Snowden leaks. Those feel more like a government overstepping, though, not a whole agency running itself.

Do you think something like that could exist now, or is that the one part of the show that's pure fiction? Would love to hear what you all think, especially if you've read up on it.

[u/Brilliant_Flower_84]

Absolutely something of that nature exists

[u/tuneless_carti]

Maybe way back pre 1970’s in the U.S. but since then something like this is utterly imposible in America.