Exactly. It is apparently legal for the CIA to assassinate people in various parts of the world. That doesn’t make it legal in those parts of the world where it actually happens. And it certainly doesn’t make it moral or just.
If you have a secret, unaccountable agency spying on foreign leaders to enrich some other secretive, unaccountable corporations, then you have a recipe for trouble on so many levels it is terrifying.
I don’t think Neuromancer was supposed to be a guidebook.