It's not even hypocrisy, in my view. A government isn't a person. Governments as large and complex as ours are inevitably going to engage in self-contradiction. I'm just glad I was able to do some work (primarily for State Department DRL) that I think made a lasting contribution.
But Jack's piece is abt international use. That's a harder distinction to make. Especially since most of our hacking/info ops v Russia is done under EO 12333, where there's only limited Congressional oversight.
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Did anything happen at all, in regard to what the US does internationally as a result of the Snowden scandal?
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In what context? Obama passed PPD-28, which is fairly meaningless and unenforceable. And that's about collection, not hacking. There's also the President's Review Group, which led to more formal VEP process only really formalized after Shadow Brokers.
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WRT domestic collection (not the subject here), USAF brought a few new transparency benefits, but arguably led to more innocent people being exposed to full brunt of NSA analysis.
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I was actually thinking international ops; but a) yes, I assumed (being naive?) that there had been some changes/there was some degree of society control/a possibility of such 2) I was thinking of it in broader terms - not just cyber, but invasions/bombings/drone attacks 1/2
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But don't get me wrong - I'm not 100% positive I'm NOT a big fat hypocrite; thinking that when our airforce bombs a hospital it's better than when RU does it; just because there may be a congressional hearing and some general [sometimes] ends up going into an early retirement 2/2
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Snowden only really affected our drone activities by making it harder for other countries to cooperate. And our accountability on bombing MSF, such as it is (no Generals retired), also needs to account for our enabling of Saudi Arabia, not exactly a democracy.
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To clarify, the last 2 tweets were not specific to Snowden. I was explaining my earlier one, "democratic oversight is what makes us different". I had that illusion (?) in 2008, that I was witnessing just that. GWB got us into a terrible war, the society realized it and elected...
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