zlacker

>>molecu+(OP)
To me, Comey is a man who has lost the goal in pursuit of his particular mission.

Defense, intelligence, policing, all these things exist in order to uphold the constitution, protect the "American ideals", etc. Many of his statements pretty directly show that he doesn't care about the collateral damage to innocent people's privacy or any founding principles, he just wants his mission to be unhindered. It's the same mentality behind police forces wanting to make their job less dangerous and more straightforward, by escalating use of force and trampling rights.

With this hypocrisy, as has come many times before (congress shocked and demanding privacy when the CIA spies on them, for instance)... I can only shake my head. Come on.

Encryption is our webcam tape.

>>white-+L
Something else to consider: Comey is also the man who famously rushed to the bedside of a very ill John Ashcroft who was being asked by Alberto Gonzales to reauthorize the warrantless wiretapping [now known as STELLAR WIND] to stop it because he felt it was illegal. Like he actually threatened to quit and was acting AG. [1]

I'm no way trying to defend his agency's actions on encryption - it's chilling and probably one of the most important and defining issues of the information age. Only adding this to point out that people are complex and not black and white and their motives and beliefs and actions can sometimes be in conflict and cognitively dissonant.

1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...

>>spinch+Mm
This just underscores that people are complex, fallible, and inconsistent and that we rarely have the full story.

With people like this, I'd just really like to get them alone in a room, off the record, and probe their beliefs, motivations, why they did things, etc.

I wonder what it was like to work with Comey at Bridgewater Associates.