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Even the police is becoming a mini-NSA now. The worst part is they are encouraged to do this from the top-down (DHS, FBI, DOJ).
by higherpurpose 12y ago
Even the police is becoming a mini-NSA now. The worst part is they are encouraged to do this from the top-down (DHS, FBI, DOJ).
- res0nat0r 12y agoWasn't one of the major findings after 9/11 and big complaint that law enforcement wasn't communicating enough and purposefully too siloed?
- higherpurpose 12y agoSharing information have with other agencies within the legal boundaries (warrants generally) and in a transparent way is fine. What is not fine is: 1) encouraging the police to do illegal mass surveillance of citizens, too, with Stingrays and other methods 2) use information obtained in an illegal way (such as NSA spying on Americans) to do parallel construction by telling cops exactly who to stop at check points because they already know through illegal spying that he committed a crime, and then using that in Court, and saying they find out about his crime at a regular traffic stop.
- psykovsky 12y agoNo, that was propaganda.
- res0nat0r 12y agoWhy is everything government related on HN now propaganda or fueled by conspiracy theory?
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- res0nat0r 12y agoRead the 9/11 Commission Report.
- baddox 12y agoI don't know about conspiracy theory, but the first one is probably because everything government related is propaganda.
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- jeangenie 12y agoSo I guess you're basing that question on your comprehensive database of reactions to every comment on HN about the goverment now? Do some research on how the problems of data siloing and sharing are being solved and it should be obvious why this is bad. If you're too lazy: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/23/blacklisted/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/23/blacklisted/
- anigbrowl 12y agoDemographics :-/
- spacemanmatt 12y agoHave you met our nationalist government?
- pstuart 12y agoI thought the major finding was that law enforcement was failing to do the job with the information that they already had, e.g., http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902000.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06...
- res0nat0r 12y agoExactly. "We believe that widespread and longstanding deficiencies in the FBI's operations and Counterterrorism Program caused the problems we described in this report," Fine's investigators wrote, including a shoddy analytical program, problems sharing intelligence information and "the lack of priority given to counterterrorism investigations by the FBI before September 11."