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Originally Posted by HowardCohodas
Our intelligence agencies are not talking to each other either human to human or computer to computer. So let's fix it with the Director of National Intelligence. With a staff exceeding 3,000 and still growing, we hope to gain efficiency and effectiveness.
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Hey Howard, I agree the right technology rightly applied could integrate information that would strengthen our internal security. But that was tried with TIA and got shot down by the civil libertarians.
The really crazy thing is, marketing companies and financial companies and
Google already collect more personal information about us than most of us probably even know.
How can critics kick the govt for not connecting the dots when the public will not tolerate a TIA-like integration?
Now, is the DNI the one to control personal information about US citizens? Probably not. The FBI, ah no - remember COINTELPRO. CIA, no. Maybe IRS, no way! So it's DHS. Can you imagine? They can't even manage their own agency.
In the tradeoff between what is technically feasible and what is politically palatable, technology loses to politics. Individual liberty out weights collective security.
So, if we've already made that choice, why invest hundreds of billions in half-measures and gi-nor-mous bureaucracies? We can't child proof the whole USA.
I think the govt's hilarious over-reaction to the pantybomber was a moment of clarity for many.