Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
by leephillips on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @09:11AM
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This sounds great in principle, but it would turn the way congress does business upside down (maybe not a bad thing). I've heard stories about hundreds or thousands of pages being added to bills by staff just minutes before a vote. I suspect the way it works is that the legislators tell their staffs what they want the bills to do, rely on them, and have no interest in actually reading the result (and who can blame them - ever read legislation?).
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Re:The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
by beagle3 on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @08:32AM
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> I suspect the way it works is that the legislators tell their staffs what they want the bills to do
Many bills today (perhaps most) are not written by legislators and their staff, but rather by lobbyists. That might have been the case since forever (if the movie "The Aviator" is not too dramatized, this has been true in the 1930's as well)