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In some ways, law-enforcement officials (and the former military-industrialists who serve them) are like kids playing with high-explosive toys. They're doing it, literally, because they can. Because America (and some other countries) right now are infatuated with the notion that they "must" eavesdrop upon everything that's going on ... and, not coincidentally, because trillions(!) of dollars can be made that way. It's one thing to fight a war abroad ... but far more profitable to set up a similar war posture at home, and then to keep it indefinitely. Uncle Sugar pays for it all.
And you just keep stuffing that line of crow down the people's craw until they f-i-n-a-l-l-y get too much. As long as you can stay just this side of an actual public reaction (e.g. courtesy of USA Today and Fox News and the like), you can make a fortune. And, they do. As do the politicians who do their bidding.
It really doesn't matter, at least not to them, what "the public interest" might be. "The love of money is the root of all evil," and that has not changed in five thousand years.
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Ya got me! 
