re: #167 EmmmieG

Leaving the question: Was it against the law? If they had sought and received permission from higher levels of the government, was it legal? What does our law allow?

When someone wraps themselves up in “the law” and places that above everything else no matter what the outcome, it is bad. When that is done for obvious political reasons, it is pathetic.

Our “need to know” culture harms us in so many ways. We need to have a mechanism to deal with the legality of some things. The CIA is convert for a reason. Why not just open it all up and let our enemies see everything? I really think there are some people that would actually want that.