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NSA "oversight" is a complete joke, especially with Senate Intelligence Committee members like Feinstein cheerleading for more surveillance. How is anyone ever
by mtgx 9y ago
NSA "oversight" is a complete joke, especially with Senate Intelligence Committee members like Feinstein cheerleading for more surveillance.
How is anyone ever going to rein in on NSA or find out what they're really up to if they come up with excuses like this one and then they're just let off the hook?
Stuff like this is also why I can't take seriously any pro-surveillance argument, because clearly the NSA is very non-serious about it, too.
- olfactory 9y agoExcellent points. Without a rock solid audit trail it's pretty clear how the tools will be abused. There have been many cases of abuses of power that have been disclosed, so the deletion fo this data suggests that the data revealed abuses of power from top officials that would have resulted in prison time, or even enough public outrage to lead to the program being dismantled.