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Power is quite difficult to turn down.
by aeternum 3y ago
Power is quite difficult to turn down.
- mrkeen 3y agoThose in charge are voting against their own privacy. It feels more like pandering to the "think of the children and/or think of the terrorists" crowd rather than politicians gaining more power themselves.
- ElevenLathe 3y agoPresumably the spooks have enough on enough politicians from the existing 702 program that they never have to worry about it again. Blackmail, rinse, repeat. Even if not, there is enough black funding floating around the security state that they can do this without Congress.
- aeternum 3y agoHouse of Cards did a good job of showing just a handful of the ways that favors are traded (or power subtly asserted) between the intelligence agencies and politicians. The founding fathers understood this risk and went to great lengths to ensure separation of powers, but the vast majority of 3 letter agencies did not exist back then and thus exist outside of the well-designed structure.