no one is manually searching through petabytes of data. it's all ingested into ML systems which spit out inferences and predictions about individuals. repeat with enough people, combine datasets, now you're generating increasingly accurate predictions about society at large. less privacy = more data = better training = more accurate predictions.

Or It’s an impossible problem

You can’t win 100% of the time, so you’ll miss some and people will be rightfully mad you missed

You also can’t talk about most wins or - more frequently - events prevented/mitigated

Finally, it only takes a few bad actors in the govt to destroy long term public trust and we’ve had decades of lackluster at best leadership

So add all that up and there’s never going to be positive news about the IC