Maybe it has already happened but somewhat privately?
It should be easy for the spooks to apply pressure, perhaps indirectly via lobbyists, based on known personal or familial communications to anyone in Congress or the Senate.
Thus Sec 309 gets passed.
This seems a far fetched conspiracy fantasy until you realise it has already happened many times before: Hoover, Nixon, etc
I'd imagine a patriotic spook could be confused that they are just doing the right thing by their country.
Apathy wins at the end of the day. People get periodically interested but then move on with their busy lives. We've kind of got disinterested and moved on from Snowden. Plenty of other things in the world to worry about. The security apparatus wins by being relentless.
Sec 309 is a good example of such a lack of vigilance from a disinterested community.
It should be easy for the spooks to apply pressure, perhaps indirectly via lobbyists, based on known personal or familial communications to anyone in Congress or the Senate.
Thus Sec 309 gets passed.
This seems a far fetched conspiracy fantasy until you realise it has already happened many times before: Hoover, Nixon, etc
I'd imagine a patriotic spook could be confused that they are just doing the right thing by their country.
Apathy wins at the end of the day. People get periodically interested but then move on with their busy lives. We've kind of got disinterested and moved on from Snowden. Plenty of other things in the world to worry about. The security apparatus wins by being relentless.
Sec 309 is a good example of such a lack of vigilance from a disinterested community.