Re:Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance
by makomk on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:07AM
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It's not clear that these surveillance programs actually help stop terrorist attacks, just that if one did happen after Obama stopped them it'd be a career-ending move because it'd be perceived to be his fault.
Re:Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance
by irixusr on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @08:06AM
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And if the system selects the non-rational power hungry by design?
Elections are cutthroat, and to become president you have to have won many of them. It could be argued that an evil person has slightly better of odds of getting through. Raise that to the power of the half dozen elections needed to become president and you end up with Cheneys, Hilarys, and the like...
Any rational person would consider preventing a major terrorist attack far more important than keeping their job for four years. People with the opposite motivation do exist, but generally I'd consider them pretty close to evil. Someone like that would probably have had a different 2 terms to Obama, in my opinion.