SHIELD was the executive arm of the WSC. And even setting HYDRA aside, SHIELD was adopting some deeply questionable policies; Rogers was challenging Fury about them before either of them had any idea of HYDRA's involvement, and his concerns seem to have been borne out.
The American constitution is ultimately based on oversight of the government by the governed; not on oversight by some elite body. SHIELD functioned as such an elite body, and it was used as a tool by people who wanted (as Brecht put it in Die Lösung "To dissolve the people and elect another." Rogers's ultimate solution, and Romanoff's, was to expose all of SHIELD's records to public view, enabling public oversight again.
We can talk about "in favor of some kind of oversight" if you like. But just because I like sea bathing doesn't mean I want to be pickled in brine. Establishing a general principle does not mean establishing everything that anyone might claim is an application of that principle.
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The American constitution is ultimately based on oversight of the government by the governed; not on oversight by some elite body. SHIELD functioned as such an elite body, and it was used as a tool by people who wanted (as Brecht put it in Die Lösung "To dissolve the people and elect another." Rogers's ultimate solution, and Romanoff's, was to expose all of SHIELD's records to public view, enabling public oversight again.
We can talk about "in favor of some kind of oversight" if you like. But just because I like sea bathing doesn't mean I want to be pickled in brine. Establishing a general principle does not mean establishing everything that anyone might claim is an application of that principle.