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While I agree, that doesn’t mean that their usage of lawful wiretaps is ethical, which is the bigger issue.
by snazz 7y ago
While I agree, that doesn’t mean that their usage of lawful wiretaps is ethical, which is the bigger issue.
- tssva 7y agoI don't see the bigger issue being whether their use of lawful court approved wiretaps is ethical. I think the discussion of whether lawful wiretaps are ethical and should be used by law enforcement was settled long ago with the vast majority agreeing with their use. I see the bigger issue being whether ICE's law enforcement mission is ethical. Once you accept that it is, which I don't necessarily do, the use of lawful wiretaps to achieve it seems to me to be for most a non-issue.
- bradleyjg 7y agoI agree, but I think it is somewhat unfair to always make it about ICE, when really it's about Congress and the President. A public employee that does the right thing at great personal cost is a hero, but our elected officials should never put them in that position in the first place. That's where the bulk of the anger belongs--at a legislature that has abdicated way too much of its responsibility and at an elected executive that has taken that delegated authority and used it for things we find unethical. Sure we can save some disappointment and anger for the foot-soldiers but not at the cost of losing site of where most of the blame belongs. We have protests about companies providing software to ICE, why don't we have any protests about companies providing software to the White House and Congress?