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On Monday at the Center for Strategic & International Studies' Global Security Forum, John Brennan, Director of the US' Central Intelligence Agency, spoke about the recent bombings in Paris. In what many commentators took as a reference to Edward Snowden, but could instead refer to the Church Committee, Brennan predicted that finding the attackers will be more difficult than it would have been, had intelligence services been left unchecked:
In the past several years, because of a number of unauthorized disclosures and a lot of hand-wringing over the government's role in the effort to try to uncover these terrorists, there have been some policy and legal and other actions that are taken that make our ability collectively, internationally to find these terrorists much more challenging.
I do hope that this is going to be a wake-up call particularly in areas of Europe where I think there has been a misrepresentation of what the intelligence security services are doing by some quarters that are designed to undercut those capabilities.
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There are a lot of technological capabilities that are available right now that make it exceptionally difficult both technically as well as legally for intelligence security services to have insight that they need to uncover it.
Brennan's complete remarks are available in video via C-SPAN.
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(Score: 2) by Leebert on Wednesday November 18 2015, @10:21PM
He said "we need to strike a balance. It's not a trade off, it's a balance".
Indeed. In the United States, we *already* struck a balance, and encoded it in a document that we call the Constitution of the United States of America.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:03AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Leebert on Thursday November 19 2015, @06:13AM
We struck a balance between privacy and security in the Constitution. We decided that the security we get from warrantless searches isn't worth the potential tradeoffs, and codified that in the 4th amendment. Thre are plenty of similar balances that were codified in the Constitution. Not sure why you disagree.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 19 2015, @07:16AM
(what they want is another bargain, they outgrew the old one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 19 2015, @12:00PM
That is true, but when they change the bargain without telling anyone, then it's breaking the law, which is a crime. Crimes are punishable. They have broken the law over and over again and have even stopped pretending that they aren't breaking the law, because they don't perceive the need, that is, the possibility of punishment.
Time for punishment.
Washington DC delenda est.