New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for Cyber Battle

Re:New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for C... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday January 18, 2015 @05:45PM (#8909283)

> You pick representatives, and they are shown the effectiveness of programs, because they are the ones who vote for the programs.

They aren't always given the information either. Recall Diane Feinstein being quite displeased about being lied to recently. And we still have to elect "them" on the basis of something. By what process is a corrupt politician supposed to be held accountable if the fact of their corruption is a government secret?

> Some things that are not very popular are absolutely necessary nonetheless.

How do you propose to ensure that only the "absolutely necessary" things are occurring?

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Re:New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for C... by diminoten on Sunday January 18, 2015 @06:15PM (#8909389)

If you know about it, it's not secret, so you're in a losing position of being unable to come up with an example of corruption the public doesn't know about.

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Re:New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for C... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday January 18, 2015 @07:24PM (#8909626)

Don't be silly. All of the corruption we know about now is an example of corruption the public didn't know about before it was published. The problem is we need to learn about it while there is still time to do something about it. We can't stop it if we only learn about it after it has already happened.

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Re:New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for C... by diminoten on Sunday January 18, 2015 @07:40PM (#8909674)

The problem with corruption is that we don't know about it soon enough?

Got it.

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