there is a pretty closed circle of people who end up being picked for non-elected, federal, bureaucratic directorships. It's not really 'public servants who hav

there is a pretty closed circle of people who end up being picked for non-elected, federal, bureaucratic directorships. It's not really 'public servants who have the best credentials and a history of achievement and knowledge in the field' and more like 'people who have been working on an agenda in and out of academia, federal agencies, and non-profits who are particularly well connected to party members'. they have agendas that they have worked on long before they get selected and they are often chosen specifically to implement this plan without anyone in the public knowing what it is. This explains how the anti-privacy, anti-encryption agenda manages to appear simultaneously in both the US and EU. There are people working behind the scenes to push this stuff. Then it appears and suddenly elected politicians are voting on something with thousands of pages that no one in the public has read, or a non-elected bureaucracy is suddenly rapidly implementing something with a plan that appears very well designed.