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This would make the FBI guilty of a whole bunch of felonies, would it not? (Independent of whether what they were doing is morally right or wrong, isn't this ex
by Tloewald 13y ago
This would make the FBI guilty of a whole bunch of felonies, would it not? (Independent of whether what they were doing is morally right or wrong, isn't this exactly what they imprison hackers for?)
- unreal37 13y agoYou cannot arrest the U.S. government for felonies.
- tlrobinson 13y agoHuh? Surely if they started killing innocent people you could arrest them. The question is what gives them the authority to use these tactics? Wiretapping laws?
- baddox 13y agoThey started killing innocent people very early in the government's history and have yet to stop.
- tlrobinson 13y agoSigh, I should have expected this response. You know what I mean.
- baddox 13y agoWhite innocent people?
- Tloewald 13y agoBut you can arrest individuals who, using their office, engage in felonies. If this is organizational, i believe we could use RICO.
- unreal37 13y agoOnly if it's unsanctioned. Like Watergate. But if the government as an official approved sanctioned policy directs an employee to do an action (like, hack into Facebook's servers), good luck trying to get that employee arrested. The government may be doing illegal acts, but no one can be arrested over those since they are sanctioned by the two law making branches of government (executive and congress).
- VladRussian2 13y agoyou probably miss the point of a 2 caste system - one above the law and the other. USA has been significantly lagging (compare to many other countries) in development of such a system, yet it has made huge progress in that direction during the recent decade.
- pjscott 13y agoIs it a recent development? On the FBI scale of sinister actions, I'd say this rates, at most, 300 milli-Hoovers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover