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Must have taken an act of congress. Imagine that. Powerful people dont want their photos analyzed. Hmmm

• adventured 5y ago
  That's not how it works. One group of powerful people, better positioned to take advantage, want to analyze the personal contents of other powerful people. The more well positioned group always thinks they can be spared from their own creations, that they're in control of it. The politicians that passed the Patriot Act didn't personally fear it, they viewed themselves as the masters of it; it was to be applied to the other people. For example, that's how you build an illegal dragnet spying operation against an inbound, democratically elected President. You do it courtesy of having the loyalty of the intelligence community top to bottom. And you avoid that illegal activity becoming a punished criminal deed by controlling at least half or more of the government. One power group targeting another power group, that's how Washington DC has always worked, and will always work (as well as most governments throughout history, it's endemic to politics/politicians).