Friday, June 7, 2013

The latest snatch of information by the government is more about us than the government...

Laziness.  It is about laziness.  When the government seeks to not do its job, it looks for easier avenues to perform its critical function.  In the records grab from Verizon, the government, via NSA, simply plugged in a computer to download data (an overly simplistic view perhaps), but it saved the FBI, CIA, and other law enforcement agencies from having to identify real targets to focus their investigation upon.

It is the same method use to tap the congressional press phones, the AP, and the Fox News reporter.  Instead of enforcing security from within the government, identifying potential leaks, and tapping their employees' phones, they made it easier upon themselves and tapped the phones where the information would most likely be headed: the press.

When the government is lazy, and unsupervised, bad things happen.  We tend to cooperate as long as we comfortably know nothing about it, and as long as we can justify our ignorance under the auspices of a nice title like anti-terrorism, national security, or public safety, then we as Americans are fine with it for the most part.  Shame on us for not being more demanding of our public servants.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/verizon-wiretaps-nsa-guardian/2013/06/06/id/508343?s=al&promo_code=13BE8-1

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