Re:The U.S. Government's Most Powerful Spying Tool Is Fighti...
by Zak on Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:31PM
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Everybody's the hero in their own story, and heroes don't need guardrails because they would never do anything unjust, at least not without a really good reason.
Re:The U.S. Government's Most Powerful Spying Tool Is Fighti...
by freedomben on Saturday December 09, 2023 @09:11PM
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Yep. And in their minds the person is guilty (and sometimes really is) and the Constitution is preventing them from a conviction. It makes intuitive sense because the system was built on Blackstone's Ratio, so it's designed to let guilty people go free sometimes to avoid convicting an innocent. To law enforcement people, this would be massively annoying.
Re:The U.S. Government's Most Powerful Spying Tool Is Fighti...
by skygazer on Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:40PM
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Even when they genuinely have the best of intentions. I'm not sure who causes more harm, those bent on destruction or those stridently doing "good." They cause similar horrors. It's a wonder humanity persists.
I honestly don't get spying/law enforcement's desire to do unconstitutional things. Most of them take oaths to uphold the constitution, and there's apparently a lot of training about it. So why do such strong guardrails have to be put in place? I would assume that NSA/CIA/FBI would recoil in horror from violating constitutional norms, but it seems just the opposite - they're itching to just mine the data and put people away.