The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens

Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by bilbo0s on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:11PM (#36301188)

I suspect all those who write the laws already have a Damoclean Sword threatening to drop on them at any time convenient. So I wouldn't count on much help from them whether the laws apply to them or not. It's a virtual certainty that noone who seeks power is free of exploitable skeletons. They are the kind of people who seek power. So the law enforcement and security infrastructure can leak that whenever they choose.

I guess what I'm saying is, your suggestion would be a good idea, but the security apparatus figured it out before you did a long time ago. See ABSCAM for instance.

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Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by autoexec on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:05PM (#36301909)

I'm reminded of how Obama was vocally opposed to domestic surveillance and campaigned on ending all the new spying on the American people, but once he was in office he changed his tune very quickly and ended up expanding the NSA's ability to spy on the people instead.

I figure either he was shown some very strong and classified evidence that the data the NSA had been collecting was critical to protecting the people even while it violated their constitutional rights and freedoms or else he was shown how much dirt they have on him and his family and he was blackmailed into publicly declaring his love for NSA spying and handing them more tools to collect data while making only a few token changes.

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Re:The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens by bilbo0s on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:16PM (#36303844)

I figure either he was shown some very strong and classified evidence that the data the NSA had been collecting was critical... or else he was shown how much dirt they have on him

Just, Devil's Advocate, but, yeah, why can't it be both?

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