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<blockquote data-quote="RDKirk" data-source="post: 77206823" data-attributes="member: 326155"><p>What you have just said is that you would not have any problem with the government setting up the extensive and invasive surveillance apparatus necessary to routinely track every American's online activity, no matter how obscure or infrequent, because <strong>you </strong>have nothing to hide.</p><p></p><p>That's the kind of thinking in reaction to a single incident that got us the PATRIOT Act. Although I was a career intelligence analyst myself--and had access to most of the alphabet of compartments at one time or another over my career--I am opposed to the US setting up that kind of surveillance apparatus and using it routinely to investigate American citizens.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>People in the military have lots of political opinions, and some of them mirror Donald Trump's opinions...but Donald Trump's opinions are not illegal, nor do they denote a likelihood of releasing classified information for their own benefit.</p><p></p><p>Teixeira's crime was <strong>not </strong>because of his opinions. His crime was because he was personally deficient of the judgment not to use the information to which he had access to ingratiate himself with a narrow group of like-minded online acquaintances.</p><p></p><p>There are left-leaning people with SCI clearances who face the same moral situation. The US government has a lot of secret activities--things the US military has done in Africa, the Middle East, et cetera, that would be embarrassing if released and would endanger lives, but would suit left-wing causes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDKirk, post: 77206823, member: 326155"] What you have just said is that you would not have any problem with the government setting up the extensive and invasive surveillance apparatus necessary to routinely track every American's online activity, no matter how obscure or infrequent, because [B]you [/B]have nothing to hide. That's the kind of thinking in reaction to a single incident that got us the PATRIOT Act. Although I was a career intelligence analyst myself--and had access to most of the alphabet of compartments at one time or another over my career--I am opposed to the US setting up that kind of surveillance apparatus and using it routinely to investigate American citizens. People in the military have lots of political opinions, and some of them mirror Donald Trump's opinions...but Donald Trump's opinions are not illegal, nor do they denote a likelihood of releasing classified information for their own benefit. Teixeira's crime was [B]not [/B]because of his opinions. His crime was because he was personally deficient of the judgment not to use the information to which he had access to ingratiate himself with a narrow group of like-minded online acquaintances. There are left-leaning people with SCI clearances who face the same moral situation. The US government has a lot of secret activities--things the US military has done in Africa, the Middle East, et cetera, that would be embarrassing if released and would endanger lives, but would suit left-wing causes. [/QUOTE]
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