FBI Shares Secret Surveillance Data With Private Sector

The revelations keep coming:

As a legal matter, this seems straightforward. The FBI’s gotten too loose with sharing Americans’ data in violation of its own “minimization” rules and you’d better believe Jim Comey will be asked about it the next time he testifies before Congress. If he testifies before Congress.

As a political matter, it’s more complicated. Why did agents access the info and, in some cases, share it with people who weren’t supposed to see it? Were they spying on Americans for reasons unrelated to national security or were they scrambling to foil what they thought were imminent terror attacks? If the latter — and that’s a big if — this is a sort of high-tech version of the old “ticking bomb” scenario in debates over torture. When is it appropriate for the government to break its own rules if it reasonably believes it can save innocent lives by doing so?

It seems like a big deal, but I get the impression the official FBI is actually composed of boy scouts compared to some areas of domestic intel, so the intel it gathers is probably not all that big a deal in the grand scheme. The intel which is a big deal, and which would really blow minds, is gathered by private sector contractors, and kept in the private sector, so if anybody does an FOIA or gets access to a government database, it isn’t anywhere near the official agencies who use the intel and search the databases regularly. Basically it insulates government against allegations of spying if private companies do it, and then offer the government access.

Of course this shows that there are no firewalls in the machine on what can be done, beyond the leadership’s word that “such and such” is impossible. In reality, there are no rules, and everybody is making it up as they go along today. Historically, that cannot last among men. For some reason those at the top of any structure with power can never contain themselves absent oversight, and one-time, desperate expediencies in time of need become regular unofficial procedures until somebody of lesser morals realizes there are no rules, goes hog wild, and gets everyone caught. It will go too far, incidents will spiral out of control, and eventually the government’s yang will turn into yin.

At some point, perhaps when the government collapses, the public’s yin will turn into yang, as the public begins to realize everything they were told, and everything they were shown was nothing but a mirage. Just as nobody trusted banks or the stock market after the crash of ’29, I expect a massive anti-government backlash to erupt, just as the government is teetering on the precipice of its own economic destruction. Nothing triggers amygdalae, like the shock of realizing everything you thought was real was as far from the truth as could be.

I suspect all of this may be part of a grander plan, and that what will come after will be even more magnificent as a result. Never underestimate the power of providence on the path of America.

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