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FBI 'Grossly Inflated' Statistics on Investigations Stymied by Encrypted Smartphones

Mansu944 said:
How the mighty have fallen. I’m still glad they’re on our side but distrust in the FBI is only growing. This is just like how they wanted to help trump...not spy on him.
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Or not. Because the first wasn’t spying. And the second may have been a bureaucratic error as opposed to deliberate malfeasance.
 
DoctorTech said:
I think the FBI is too busy violating attorney-client privileges, shredding documents, and bit bleaching text messages between anti-Trump "agents with benefits" to waste time getting an accurate count on cell phones. Besides, the grossly exaggerated number made their case for backdoors look better. Its funny how all their "mistakes" always seem to benefit their side of the argument. In statistics, when numbers are consistently off in the same direction it is called "bias."

Too bad we don't have an Attorney General to provide some adult supervision, this agency desperately needs it.
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The FBI and the Attorney General are so linked in the corruption that any investigation into one, will bring down the other. So instead of doing whats right for American, they just lie, lie, and lie. Then they claim national security at risk so the lies don't become public to us or Congress.
 
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I would mock the FBI for not being able to math properly, but I can't either most of the time, so...
 
Many will see this as the government trying to pull one over on us. I think it is just incompetence.

I’m not sure which is more disappointing
 
Meanwhile, in other news.... there were 8,785,321 criminals in police custody last year that would not "unlock" or share information stored in their brain. They refused to talk. So, is looking at the inner dealings of someones brain and their phone much different?
 
At least the FBI is owning up to it, and correcting. Incompetence in this case? Likely. I would encourage steering away from terms like 'lying, or fake'. Those are lazy ways of covering your own faulty actions. Legitimate faults should be acknowledged and addressed.
 
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We should respect everything three letter agencies say or do, even if its dishonest or unlawful.

To not, would be tarnish the untarnished reputation of these pristine orgs. And we wouldn’t want that.
 
nt5672 said:
The FBI and the Attorney General are so linked in the corruption that any investigation into one, will bring down the other. So instead of doing whats right for American, they just lie, lie, and lie. Then they claim national security at risk so the lies don't become public to us or Congress.
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I agree. I am sorely disappointed in Jeff Sessions as AG. Being the "new guy" he could have exposed the corruption within DOJ without it reflecting on himself. However, he has been completely AWOL, not just on Russia but on everything.

The whole DOJ has become the swamp within the swamp.
 
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FrenchRoasted said:
Who will do that? Another gov agency? The state will oversee itself to make sure it behaves, yeah that has always worked in the past.
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The Federal Reserve bank check/balance doesn't work well either. The main reason for civil liberties was to allow unalienable rights for which we can protect ourselves; including actions taken by government agencies. The government has been corrupt for a while.

I find difficulty treading the line between future tech, and future liberties because they are now at odds. The future is all about convenience (voice assistance, AI, home automation, etc), while at the same time we also deal with more and more data collection, government corruption and huge power plays, massive surveillance, military instillation, etc.
 
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Wishbrah said:
obama's FBI, ladies and gentlemen!
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The FBI has always been corrupt, going back to its inception. The shady stuff they’ve done under Obama is just a continuation of that.

This recent wave of idiolizing the Intelligence apparatus is truly concerning.
 
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What? The government lies to us..... noooooooooooo
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DoctorTech said:
I think the FBI is too busy violating attorney-client privileges, shredding documents, and bit bleaching text messages between anti-Trump "agents with benefits" to waste time getting an accurate count on cell phones. Besides, the grossly exaggerated number made their case for backdoors look better. Its funny how all their "mistakes" always seem to benefit their side of the argument. In statistics, when numbers are consistently off in the same direction it is called "bias."

Too bad we don't have an Attorney General to provide some adult supervision, this agency desperately needs it.
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LoL....#drumpf and his cohorts are criminals..... to any logical person that's obvious considering the amount of folks pleading guilty to crimes......
 
NT1440 said:
The FBI has always been corrupt, going back to its inception. The shady stuff they’ve done under Obama is just a continuation of that.

This recent wave of idiolizing the Intelligence apparatus is truly concerning.
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I don’t think they ever believed a non politician like Trump would be President... the videos of everybody under the sun laughing about it is actually quite funny.

Here’s one thing we all do know about DJT ... if any of this spying or undermining of Trump during the campaign or after he won is true.

He’s never going to forgive and forget.
 
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