On 9/21/19, coderman <[email protected]> wrote: > the informative aspect is the utter failing of "oversight" of this > privilege; even NYT is calling bullshit.
> “That’s the problem with the Freedom Act: It procedurally pretended to solve > the problem,” he said. “But the whole structure of this involves presumption > in favor of the government for perpetual sealing.” The number of people in USA Con-gress that have somewhat extensive direct access and "oversight" is roughly four(4), right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress#Privileges_and_pay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaries_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress Self allotted favors of perpetual pay for perpetual presumption, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act#Civil_liberties_advocates If it has the word "freedom" or "patriot" in it, it must be good, and rubber stamped without question, right?
