re: #19 EPR-radar

One thing that bothers me is that I would have likely accepted all this nonsense by GG/the Guardian etc. at face value if it had occurred during the Bush years after I had soured on GW Bush.

Well, the Patriot Act pretty much ensured that meta-data sets would be collected. How are you going to find needles in a haystack if you don’t have haystacks?

It really wasn’t, to my mind, a Rep/Dem thing at all. It was the fact that we had the shit scared out of us by 9/11 and, almost to a citizen, demanded that it not happen again. I guess my problem from the beginning was the complete lack of transparency in the FISA courts. Who was watching the watchers?

If the audits are to be believed, there were very few transgressions outside of rules-in-place. But those metrics aren’t defined.

Sigh.

A puzzlement.