This is, as far as I'm concerned, the TL;DR: Rep. Gohmert: Well, I'm not sure that I would care if it destroyed a hacker's computer completely. As long as it w

This is, as far as I'm concerned, the TL;DR: Rep. Gohmert: Well, I'm not sure that I would care if it destroyed a hacker's computer completely. As long as it was confined to that hacker. Are you saying we need to afford the hacker protection so we don't hurt him too bad? Orin Kerr: (brief confounded look on his face) Uh... no. The difficulty is that you don't know who the hacker is. So it might be that you think the hacker is one person, but their routing communications... Let's say, you think you're being hacked by a French company, or even a company in the United States... Rep. Gohmert: Oh and it might be the United States Government! And we don't want to hurt them if they're snooping on our people. Is that...? Orin Kerr: No