Trump’s CIA Director Wants to Return to a Pre-Snowden World

Re:Trump’s CIA Director Wants to Return to a Pre-Snowden World by mars4rp on Friday November 18, 2016 @04:02PM (#12990047)

all this data collection is useless and doesn't change anything. billions of dollars wasted.

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Re:Trump’s CIA Director Wants to Return to a Pre-Snowden World by convolvatron on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:19PM (#12991430)

as a former employee of the military industrial complex, i've always wondered how much of the funding went into these categories

   - simple graft
   - strategic investment in technology so that it might be available later if needed
   - strategic investment in people and industries so that they will be on tap later if needed
   - pointless waste
   - things of actual tactical value

seems like it might be a combination?

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Re:Trump’s CIA Director Wants to Return to a Pre-Snowden World by gloverkcn on Saturday November 19, 2016 @04:00AM (#12992645)

I would guess that pointless waste makes up the majority. Getting sufficiently competent people in the right positions and the right authority and removing organizational politics is really difficult.

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