Honestly it's probably more like ASIO/ASIS asking the Attorney-General's department for these laws, then the public servant lawyers at AGs start pushing for the

Honestly it's probably more like ASIO/ASIS asking the Attorney-General's department for these laws, then the public servant lawyers at AGs start pushing for them. You end up with the same problem: a bunch of non-technical lawyers formulating policy on issues they don't understand. I can assure you, being a public servant myself, that technical policies often do not have sufficiently technically skilled people working on them.