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The problem is that politicians are acutely damaged when there are successful attacks, and are not affected when surveillance is overly broad, so of course they
by mLuby 8y ago
The problem is that politicians are acutely damaged when there are successful attacks, and are not affected when surveillance is overly broad, so of course they favor less privacy.
To correct this, politicians must be at least as susceptible to surveillance as the general public, if not more so.
One way to do this is to make all collected information public after 25 years. Long enough to avoid compromising ongoing investigations, but short enough that politicians will be thinking of themselves.
- craftinator 8y agoI really like the start of your comment. I see that if something bad happens, the politicians shift blame to the Intel community for missing it. Then they put pressure for more complete information from them. Then later, when there's civil outcry over a surveillance state, the politicians shift blame onto the Intel community for being too invasive. Politicians man.