> Monitoring is of course downwards and those making the decision do not get to be monitored in this intrusive fashion. -Allegedly true story from the DDR (GDR

> Monitoring is of course downwards and those making the decision do not get to be monitored in this intrusive fashion. -Allegedly true story from the DDR (GDR to you anglophones): Once citizens could start asking to see what the former East German state had on them, Erich Mielke (Head of the Stasi/the GDR KGB equivalent) asked to see his file. Presumably, he figured that someone, somewhere, watched the watchmen.