Got that right

I've heard not one single person who actually understands the technology say that this “modernization” [so called, of FISA] was needed. I hear legislators from time to time explaining when pressed that they had it explained to them by the administration but they don't know enough about the technology to know what it meant, and that's it. That's how it works: People who don't really know about this stuff get snowed with a load of jargon and nod thoughtfully without understanding a single word they hear. “It's all too complicated for me; I'll just trust the people who know seem to know what they're talking about.”

Link: The Sideshow August 2007 Archive