Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24467536-20140413124430

S.H.I.E.L.D/HYDRA's business has been put in the streets, leading to a very fractured spy organization. The other thing that has most likely been damaged by this reveal is S.H.I.E.L.D.'s reputation. In previews of AoS, their tactics have been exposed and reported in the media. S.H.I.E.L.D. has skirted the law in the name of national security and the common good; in Thor Coulson and his team confiscated Jane Foster's equipment and notes without a search warrant or court order. Jane would probably be mad now because HYDRA would have access to her research. They didn't have probable cause for imminent danger. May roughed up Quinn while in custody. We know Garrett is dirty, but had this been legitimate Quinn would have been set free on constitutional grounds. Now that S.H.I.E.L.D. is broken up, a lot of people it ran roughshold with, good or bad, may go to the press to tell their stories about its not-so-clean methods. Prosecutors would be forced to drop their cases against S.H.I.E.L.D. collars because of the questionable means of how evidence was obtained. Judges would have to order the release of prisoners apprehended by S.H.I.E.L.D. because it was done without due process. The public perception would be S.H.I.E.L.D. thinks it's above the law, just like HYDRA, and it can step on an individual's civil rights. S.H.I.E.L.D. would not only have to fight HYDRA, but fight to get its good name back.  