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Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA
FuzzNugget writes "No, you didn't just stumble upon The Onion by mistake. Ars Technica reports that Obama's 'reform' panel will report directly to James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence who arguably lied to Congress about whether the NSA conducted dragnet surveillance of Americans' communications. But is anyone really surprised?"
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but because the NSA has a lot of experience with security/privacy, they might be the best guys for the job, since they know what threats are out there. Yes, they are SIGINT, and maybe their HUMINT needs some shoring up, but expertise is expertise. You may not want the fox guarding the henhouse, but the fox will at least know which chickens are the most tender.
You know, at least politicians of yesteryear would *convincingly* lie to us. I really appreciated the time and effort they went to to construct these elaborate castles of "inaccuracies", all in an effort to appease the masses.
These new politicians...I dunno...they don't even *try* anymore. It's like they're too busy screwing us and just phone in the excuses.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
how would voting for the other asshole have been any better?
There are more than two options.
Vote Libertarian, and get the best of no world.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Yeah, it must be a big surprise that such a lying politician came from Chicago. No one saw that coming, nosirree.
Excuse me, but he's from Kenya, not Chicago!
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."
Screw that, I'm voting for the GOOP
Why settle for a lesser evil when you can have can vote for the Great Old One Party?
Cthulhu/Nyarlathotep 2016!