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by ethbr0
1292 days ago
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Whenever they don't want Congress up their ass. Four things can simultaneously be true, despite seeming contradictory: 1) Prudent opsec against nation-state adversaries dictates that you assume 0 time for them to have a tap on a device. 2) In reality, it takes >0 time, because people processes aren't instantaneous. 3) Intelligence services sometimes break the letter of the law. 4) Intelligence services usually follow the law, because it's less hassle. |
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That's not really a problem when intelligence services can just "remind" any would-be annoying congress person that they have endless amounts of data showing exactly what they and their family members have been doing and could plant whatever they want into the data they already have.
One of the things that finally convinced Snowden to give up everything he had in order to tell the American people that the NSA was violating their constitutional rights was when he watched NSA director James Clapper outright lie right to the faces of congress. After the truth came to light, do you think Mr. Clapper faced any meaningful consequences for that? Nope. Can you guess why not?
Intelligence services are too powerful to be held accountable by anyone. They'll do whatever they want.