This article at Circa by John Solomon and Sara Carter on the FBI’s abusing the power it had been given by sharing the data it had received from warrantless wiretaps with third parties doesn’t really tell us anything we shouldn’t have already known. Governments can’t just be trusted with power. It will inevitably be abused because governments are composed of people not archangels.
It also suggests to us the likely outcome when protecting your institution is the highest value, a common failing of bureaucracies. It’s truly amazing what can be overlooked when your job depends on your overlooking it.
Apparently, news outlets like MSNBC, are avoiding coverage of this abuse of power, as it doesn’t serve to advance their one-sided, social progressive narrative.
I can’t help, though, from being perplexed by the public’s tainted view of seeing so many benefits from a large centralized government hold on them, versus dealing with a competitive free market involving private sector management.
Don’t anticipate it will be picked up by the bigs, some questions are best unasked.
We should acknowledge that we tacitly give the FBI, really our entire security apparatus, to engage in this kind of behavior. We keep letting terrorist attacks terrify us. After 9/11 we gave carte blanche to law enforcement and the intel services. Just when you hope we might pull back on it we have another, or there is an attack in another country, so that there is justification for maintaining the kind of activity in which the FBI has engaged.
Really, the only reason some people care now is because they think it might have hurt their political party. Once that calms down they will go back to overlooking or even encouraging this stuff.
Steve