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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by snowwrestler on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:54PM (#10584257)
It's not fair to say incompetent; I didn't say that.

Instead, look at it this way: everyone has their area of responsibility. The head of the CIA is charged with providing the best possible situational awareness for the U.S. government. He's going to make proposals and requests that will help him do that.

He's not charged with balancing all possible consequences from his requests, and he's not going to do so.

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Re:Times Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Terror At... by tripzilch on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @05:04PM (#10584325)
> He's not charged with balancing all possible consequences from his requests, and he's not going to do so.

But ... that seems like quite a level of incompetence for someone trusted with the position of Head of the CIA?

By which I mean, not charging him with that responsibility is a mistake (in gov structure), but him actually not doing so is his own incompetence, is it not?

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