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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (578088)	5/21/2015 2:10:21 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Recommended By Ben Smith garrettjax Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793915

I have a bit of a problem commenting on your post. Why? Because, while I largely agree, I also think that you're not seeing the entire picture. Politicians as a group are self serving bastards, agreed on that. But - don't know what folks in NZ think about it, but we're in a rather real state of war. Right now, as we speak, I have little doubt that some ISIS-like characters are juggling ideas about blowing up bombs in crowded places in the US. So, do I want us to have effective intelligence against them? You bet I do. Regrettably, whether out of stupidity - or by design - our spooks follow directions from the political correctness crowd. They are not focusing their spying on potential attackers - instead, they are spying on everyone - to avoid "stereotyping". Some crap like that. It will continue until something very serious happens, and the public will lose patience with their dumb little circus. But - outing wholesale all the details of our intelligence operations ain't a great solution either.