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Would these rules also apply to NSA/CIA misuse of surveillance?
by paulsutter 8y ago
Would these rules also apply to NSA/CIA misuse of surveillance?
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- glasz 8y agoi love how you packaged your sarcasm and irony in such an innocent-looking question.
- bdcravens 8y ago"...grant the Federal Trade Commission authority to write privacy regulations." I presume the FTC doesn't have authority over the NSA/CIA, so no.
- gingerbread-man 8y agoThere have been a handful of prosecutions (and many hundreds of firings) for misuse of the FBI's NCIC database by law enforcement officials. For instance, ex-NYPD Sergeant Joseph Dwyer was convicted of conspiracy in federal court in 2016 for selling information from NCIC to private defense investigators. Personally, I believe this kind of breach-of-trust should be prosecuted much more vigorously. But besides the fear of embarrassment, I suspect federal agencies are unwilling to compromise intelligence methods to prosecute misbehavior.
- jjoonathan 8y agoOf course, but it shouldn't be up to them.
- syshum 8y agoThe key here is Misuse under the FBI's guidelines which are no where near as strict as they should be under a properly enforced 4th amendment, most of what the FBI collects in the first place should be unconstitutional for them to have if we had a properly enforced constitution, unfortunately we do not.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThose are already criminal, just rarely prosecuted even when known.
- mtgx 8y agoBut the higherups also refuse to call them abuses or crimes most of the time.
- fjsolwmv 8y agoNo. The government is sovereign; no one can prosecute the government. Only individual scapegoats can be prosecuted.