[Terretta]

Agreed that Hoover was a bad actor. Thankfully he had fewer tools at his disposal than today's bad actor would. Even those who feel they've learned nothing else new recently (feeling they'd seen evidence of these programs previously), have now learned there are apparently insufficient controls over individual access to "collecting" (taking off the shelf and looking at) NSA files.

Every few months another cop or DMV employee is busted for looking at records they shouldn't. In my book, this problem of collecting the data but not partitioning it from bad actors is one that should be getting more airtime at all levels of government and all levels of security.

[tptacek]

I, simultaneously,

(1) Agree that the powers technology has implicitly granted the DoJ are a cause for concern; and

(2) am comforted, not alarmed, by a drumbeat of stories about government employees getting busted for looking at records they shouldn't be looking at.