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"Espionage oversight" - isn't that an oxymoron?
If those conducting espionage are any good how would you monitor what they do? Isn't all you really know about what they do is what they tell you?
By definition isn't espionage in foreign lands "illegal"? A) Assuming no country would make it legal to be spied against or B) Espionage against a foreign country could be considered an act of war in some circumstances, and unless a declared war, illegal by our standards?
By definition isn't espionage, even if "properly" authorized purely subjective or a violation of a persons right to privacy and a persons Constitutional Right against unreasonable searches and seizures? If it is subjective and the government picks the judges to give authorization, isn't the authorization a pretense? and if the government doesn't want to take the risk of getting authorization, they would do it anyway, and not tell anyone?
In reality isn't "oversight" of espionage just a charade to make people "feel" good?
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