> The government argues that Americans are not themselves being targeted and thus the wiretaps are legal. How in the fuck does this ever pass Constitutional mu

> The government argues that Americans are not themselves being targeted and thus the wiretaps are legal. How in the fuck does this ever pass Constitutional muster? Yet another reminder that the whole system is made of people (who are fallable). Doesn't matter what the Constitution says if the Congress/courts don't enforce it. > But in a major victory for the Biden administration, House members voted down an amendment earlier in the day that would’ve imposed new warrant requirements on federal agencies accessing Americans’ 702 data. Yet another reason it's unfortunate that our choices this year are going to be the same awful ones as 2020. Too many people act like politics is a team sport. They're proud to vote for this guy's charisma/skin color or against that guy's impulsive nonsense, and then look past the very real problems of the guy they voted for. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity. I hope I'm not on the wrong side of this one. I don't know what the appropriate amount of "political" is on a clearly political post. I'm not here to argue for/against any particular candidate, but I would like to see a world where politics are approached with curiosity about solving individual issues and politicians are judged on their abilities to solve them, not which letter comes in the parenthesis after their names. The present cultishness is truly scary.