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The thing about intelligence work is that your failures are public and successes are secret. I think your last sentence is hopelessly naive.
by dfc 13y ago
The thing about intelligence work is that your failures are public and successes are secret.
I think your last sentence is hopelessly naive.
- nitrogen 13y agoSo make the successes public in full detail.
- dfc 13y agoI cant tell if this is a legitimate response or if you are being obtuse.
- nitrogen 13y agoI'm being serious. HN is nothing if not ultra-rational (or so we claim). Evidence trumps all. Prove surveillance works, that it's necessary, works better than any conceivable alternative, and that the damage to society is worth it, and your empirical proof will be accepted.