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The FBI, as an institution, can't feel shame or embarassment. But individuals employed by the FBI can feel shame. Don't they? Are all FBI agents who do this
by bediger 15y ago
The FBI, as an institution, can't feel shame or embarassment. But individuals employed by the FBI can feel shame. Don't they? Are all FBI agents who do this kind of un-american activity sociopaths, or do some of them feel ashamed at underminging a free society?
But the upper levels of authority at the FBI, they must all be pervets who like to snoop on people. Shame on them for doing this un-american, unnatural voyeurism.
- sehugg 15y agoI think you'd be surprised by how much people can rationalize when unemployment is near 10% and they're looking forward to an early retirement with a civil service pension.
- code_duck 15y agoHow about the people in the NSA who spied on their wives, and listened to strangers talking dirty? Some people simply don't have class or shame, and thinking of my own workplace, I people I would trust with that kind of power and those whom I would not.
- anamax 15y ago> How about the people in the NSA who spied on their wives, and listened to strangers talking dirty? However, we know that the folks in HHS will not do such things, right?
- dpatru 15y agoI suspect many law enforcement people take the attitude that if someone hasn't done anything wrong, they have nothing to hide, and if they have done something wrong, they should be brought to justice. Also, the use of electronic surveillance doesn't normally inconvenience a law-abiding person, but it can help catch dangerous criminals.
- anamax 15y ago> I suspect many law enforcement people take the attitude that if someone hasn't done anything wrong, they have nothing to hide, and if they have done something wrong, they should be brought to justice. Also, the use of electronic surveillance doesn't normally inconvenience a law-abiding person, but it can help catch dangerous criminals. I wonder what defenses the HHS people will use.
- bediger 15y agoI think that warrantless electronic surveillance very clearly violates USA Citizen's presumption of innocence and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. It's fishing, plain and simple. The FBI knows what a warrant is, they should go get one. Ignorance of the law is no excuse, that's what they'd tell a non-FBI person. I think they are fishing for wrongdoing, and it's a waste of taxpayer money, and a shameful act.Shame on you, FBI. You're acting like perverts.
- potatolicious 15y agoI don't feel that people are generally good or evil - they are simply self-serving. I have no doubt that the people involved in this sort of activity have thought about what they're doing, but at the end of the day it comes down to the Yuppie Nuremberg Defense: "I have a mortgage to pay." It's not just the FBI - this argument has been used by Wall Street bankers peddling sketchy derivatives, dishonest car salesmen, and programmers writing code that will be used to screw customers.