Political Bloviation

Failures at FBI Acknowledged - washingtonpost.com

Seem to me to be the natural result of allowing a bureaucracy unfettered access to personal information. Basically Meuller had little reason to monitor what was happening after being handed cart blanche by Congress. Many other parts of the so-called “Patriot Act” are equally woeful. The goal of opening up information sharing between intelligence services and law enforcement was appropriate. But the wholesale abandonment of privacy as a value was a major failure that needs to be addressed in a major revision of the law.

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