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With very limited use, even secret subpoenas can be a good thing, for example in a counterintelligence situation where you don't want to tip your hand to a fore
by ARandomerDude 5y ago
With very limited use, even secret subpoenas can be a good thing, for example in a counterintelligence situation where you don't want to tip your hand to a foreign intelligence service.
The problem is abuse of that system.
- post_below 5y agoAbuse of that system being a when, not if, scenario.
- throwoutway 5y agoMore like “how often”, or have we forgotten how much Obama tried to bury Snowden’s leaks?
- akiselev 5y agoI'd postulate that given the scale of a nation state, abuse of any system becomes a when, not if, scenario.
- salawat 5y ago...or to your own citizens, who you may be looking at as a domestic threat. Let's be clear There is no reason to assume that this type of thing is constrained to "just the type" the government can have their arm forced into admitting to.