Originally Posted by aliali

If you want 1984, let the intelligence agencies run their own show and not be accountable to the executive or the voters. Let them leak what they want when they want with impunity. Let them decide how to spend tax dollars on information only they have and let them spin it to the press at their choosing. Free them from oversight so they can invade all of your rights, including being free from search and seizure without cause. Give them money, power, intelligence with no accountability to the executive or voters.