Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public

New submitter autonomous_reader writes: Ars Technica has a story on this week's Intelligence & National Security Summit, where CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey had a lot to say about the resistance of the American public to government cyber spying and anti-encryption efforts. Blaming resistance on "people who are trying to undermine" the intelligence mission of the NSA, CIA, and FBI, John Brennan explained it was all a "misunderstanding." Comey explained that "venom and deep cynicism" prevented rational debate of his campaign for cryptographic backdoors.

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Re:The government we didn't elect ...

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He didn't increase my family's health care coverage. He got our existing, perfectly adequate insurance plan cancelled. We've had to replace it with a plan that costs three times as much every month, and we now have a $12,000 deductible in place of the $2,000 one we had. Of course now we get "free" mandatory neo-natal care, something we'll be sure to use now that we're well past childbearing years. Thanks, Obama!