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Re:New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ ele... by belorn on Friday January 12, 2018 @07:21AM (#16132306)
No candidate since 2001 (or possible even before then) had a political platform which wanted to dismantle the practice of DHS. No politicians see the issue as a vote winner. Red or blue, the DHS funding and policy scope has been steadily increased by each administration.

The blame can not be placed on any recent administration or person. The problem is a systemic issue, deriving from the constantly increased demands of "increased security" from the population on both side of the political fence.

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Re:New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ ele... by jermaustin1 on Friday January 12, 2018 @09:13AM (#16132894)
I will concede this is true, and I was going to say in the original post something along the lines of "not that she would have done anything to stymie this issue," but I felt that the comment was more on the fact that we don't have fairly drawn maps for our elected officials.
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