To me, 3 million dollars worth of record requests seems like more than would be optimal given the FBI’s purview. I mean, I’ve seen some terrible tweets, even s

To me, 3 million dollars worth of record requests seems like more than would be optimal given the FBI’s purview. I mean, I’ve seen some terrible tweets, even some that I’d consider criminally bad. But 3 million dollars to police bad tweets doesn’t strike me as the optimal way to allocate citizen’s money. And it’s fair to ask, what results were achieved with that 3 million? If it were not a misallocation, certainly they could point to a high profile criminal, cartel or gang that they’ve prosecuted as the result of those record requests. But we don’t hear that. We hear crickets. Their response seems to be, “how dare anyone ask!” Certainly law enforcement is important. I think so. Most citizens do. But shouldn’t we hold law enforcement accountable? Ought not there be public oversight when millions of dollars are being spent, millions of dollars spent, supposedly, on our behalf? Perhaps you believe in more unchecked authority. Maybe crime has gotten so out of control that we should loosen some of the strictures put in place by the constitution. These are dangerous times. There are plenty of bad guys out there. Personally, I think the citizens deserve to know, and have some say in how millions of dollars are spent. Absolute, unconstrained authority tends towards abuse. It’s quite well documented.