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Re:The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets by prawn on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @08:27AM (#9177317)
I don't think they want that. They take this course because "this was preventable!" is very politically disruptive. None of them want to be the guy who voted against mandatory data retention only to play host to an attack on home soil months later. It's sad, but that's the reality.
Re:The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets by gohrt on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:08PM (#9178469)
The history of government spying, at least as far back as J Edgar Hoover, as been about spying on members of the opposition, not about ass-covering. ass-covering is just the current halfway-excuse.