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yea like the NSA was punished for their stuff ...

• bryanrasmussen 6y ago
  as I said "structurally placed in their bureaucracy to be above the law", the NSA and the CIA are very much placed to be above the law in the US. Obviously pious people proclaim every now and then that nobody is above the law, but pragmatically these agencies often are. The Utah Highway Patrol is not placed to be above Federal law. If the EU passes a regulation forbidding the use of biometric surveillance the Danish National Police will be very much under that regulation, in the same way that if the US government passed a law regulating highway stops of motor vehicles the Utah Highway patrol would be under that law. There may be some EU agency that because of various things would be able to operate above the law on this issue, but not the national agencies.
  • bryanrasmussen 6y ago
    as an example - most US police organizations are structurally placed to be above a lot of the law in their state, which is why we always hear about police officers killing people and getting a suspension with pay etc. the most common structural placement of your organization above the law is to have the organization investigate its own wrongdoing.
    • eptcyka 6y ago
      This is how the police operates in the UK too.