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Why would the NSA relinquish power? Layoffs imply a lack of income, a problem the NSA, as a government program, doesn't have to worry about. If those 80% were
by escherize 12y ago
Why would the NSA relinquish power? Layoffs imply a lack of income, a problem the NSA, as a government program, doesn't have to worry about.
If those 80% were redundant, why not repurpose them to dig a little deeper into other activities?
- jsprogrammer 12y agoHow does NSA or other government programs not have to worry about lack of income? 1) Government programs have been temporarily and/or permanently shutdown by minority parties in the past. 2) US Government exists at the leisure of the people within its borders.
- jpatokal 12y agoIf the agency in question can sufficiently co-opt/coerce the government, they don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
- jsprogrammer 12y agoCertainly. It is up to the people that allow the government to persist to surveil the activities of that government to ensure that it is operating within the bounds they have permitted.
- authatheist 12y agoOh those silly North Koreans. When will they decide to stop permitting their own torture? Their benevolent overlords have been torturing them in droves for half a fucking century, but apparently they like it that way, because otherwise they wouldn't PERMIT it, right?