On 9/21/19, coderman <coderman@protonmail.com> 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... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Select_Committee_on_Intel... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress#Privileges_and_pay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaries_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congr... 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?