| I'd ague this is exactly how it's supposed to work in a democratic rule of law: - The press is free to dig and find out stuff - that's what they did here. - Intelligence officials disagree about the NSA deal. Leadership wants to continue, line officer disagrees and goes to the independent control service for the security agencies. - Several investigations are conducted showing differing results (independent control agency thinks laws are being broken, subsequent investigation found no wrong doing). - Secret information is leaked, investigated by the security agencies and a case is brought. - Courts decide on how the case can be brought and ultimately the case is dropped due to the Supreme Court wanting only partially closed doors (so the public will see some of it). - ANOTHER investigation will now be conducted into how the Justice Department and/or the Prime Ministry has acted. While many mistakes have been made by different parties here, the checks and balances work well. Nobody has any supreme power or anything here. |