> they still need to have the budget for their operations supplied from somewhere. http://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbi-budget-request-for-fis.... - it appears as if the FBI's budget is just as rigidly controlled as any other governmental organisation
Also, I've commented on the NSA probably intercepting on the people in command immediately after the Petraus affair hit the media (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4767644), but I had hopes that they would stop at those people. Someone in the comments reprimanded me for viewing things in a CSI-like manner (CSI the TV show), but it was not that, just the natural reflexes of a former kid who has grown in Eastern Europe with Securitate ruling and surveying everything in sight. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitate)
I'm not an American, but I guess rules can be mended and solutions found in a country where 1.1 trillion USD can just "vanish" (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/729997/posts).
Also, I've commented on the NSA probably intercepting on the people in command immediately after the Petraus affair hit the media (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4767644), but I had hopes that they would stop at those people. Someone in the comments reprimanded me for viewing things in a CSI-like manner (CSI the TV show), but it was not that, just the natural reflexes of a former kid who has grown in Eastern Europe with Securitate ruling and surveying everything in sight. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitate)