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Because three letter agencies have a huge incentive to trawl through politicians' private lives through credit card purchase data, and use that against them if
by raincom 3y ago
Because three letter agencies have a huge incentive to trawl through politicians' private lives through credit card purchase data, and use that against them if they don't want to toe the line of these agencies, whose ex-employees are guests on the main stream media. Just leak enough to derail any politician.
- jameshart 3y agoThere's presumably a lot of evidence of this you can point to...?
- politician 3y agoRead about J. Edgar Hoover.
- jameshart 3y agoIs he back?!
- mixmastamyk 3y agoObtuse reverse skepticism is not a good look.
- jameshart 3y agoPointing to a guy who’s been dead 50 years seems like weak evidence for the claim that government agencies are widely incentivized to undermine political candidates by… selectively leaking their grocery shopping habits?
- mixmastamyk 3y agoThey’ll look for anything they can find, when they need to. There are whole organizations devoted to digging up dirt, and others devoted to countering/deflecting it. Risk minimization sounds prudent if you’re a target.
- politician 3y agoIf the very first director of the FBI immediately abused his position to blackmail everyone around, what do you think has been going on in the intervening 75 years?
- politician 3y agoThe front page of HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123670 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123670
- dragonwriter 3y agoThe constraints and incentives for agencies like the FBI have changed a lot since Hoover (in no small part due to the abuses under Hoover.) “Read about J. Edgar Hoover” is a handwave, rather than an argument, and its made worse when it supposed to support a position on the current state of affairs.
- politician 3y agoThe OP asked for examples, not arguments.