"But inside the conference room, as dozens of participants met and workshopped various tactics to battle ISIS’s seemingly inexhaustible PR machine, one thing became abundantly clear — there remains, inside the U.S. government, a huge cognitive dissonance. The DOJ called the meeting in the midst of rising anti-Muslim sentiment across the country, fed by the campaign of Donald Trump, and yet failed to include more than a small handful of Muslims in the meeting. And while the meeting appealed for help from the tech community, tensions between Washington and Silicon Valley are at an all time high as the FBI seeks to set a precedent by forcing Apple to help them break into a phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters."
And wait, there’s more:
Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts - The New York Times
"WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is on the verge of permitting the National Security Agency to share more of the private communications it intercepts with other American intelligence agencies without first applying any privacy protections to them, according to officials familiar with the deliberations."
Meanwhile every one of the R’s at last night’s debate came down in favor of forcing Apple to hack iPhones (if you think they’re talking about just one iPhone or, for that matter, just Apple, maybe you ought to be running for president yourself—you’d fit right in).
These guys are not thinking about protecting thee nor me, darlin’, they are thinking only of protecting their own sorry butts from blame if anything (when anything, really) goes wrong.
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