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Most ordinary people will never be on their radar. That's usually the case, even under tyrannical regimes. But that ignores the journalists, the lawyers, the ri
by LoganCale 13y ago
Most ordinary people will never be on their radar. That's usually the case, even under tyrannical regimes. But that ignores the journalists, the lawyers, the rival politicians, the activists, the dissidents…
- _delirium 13y agoTrue, though historically in the U.S., the FBI has been the agency where those kinds of abuses show up. The foreign intelligence agencies have had more of a culture of viewing domestic affairs as petty and beneath them. Trusting a three-letter agency's cultural norms isn't very solid protection, admittedly.
- LoganCale 13y agoThe NSA now does intelligence collection for the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies.