Brian B. Riley, CIA friend wrote wrote:
[...] We've known for years now that the jackbooted thugs of the DEA are by far the most law-abusing, disrespectful, rights-sneering, down-and-dirty, life-threatening, hair-raising agents of the entire US Government. Bar none. They've got to be watched, because they're a nasty threat to individual liberty, and because they routinely interfere with the legitimate work of other American intelligence agencies. (And they've been monitored, by the way, since at least 1984, to my knowledge.) ........................................................
Well, there's watching, and then there's Just Watching. I would think that if some agency known to be so untrustworthy that it requires "watching", that it also deserves some action against its unacceptable activities immediately as they are discovered. It's rather ineffective to just passively monitor/watch what someone is doing, and keeps doing. This becomes more like voyeurism. Which recalls to mind the difference in the effect of surveillance upon different kinds of people: to those with personal standards for self-control/self-government, it is highly disturbing; to those with none, it is not even annoying. Just a comment on surveillance in general.