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You're right. Soldiers are ignorant sheeple unlike us here on reddit and HN who actually understand things.

It would be much better to have someone from reddit or HN in charge of the NSA. It could be decided by upvotes. Does anyone want to start a poll?

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No, you're right. It's so much better to have old, ugly military guys take all the important decision, spy on, detain and torture people they don't like, without any courts. This is why North Korea is the engine of the world progress.

China is arguably the current engine of world progress, and there, state surveillance is ubiquitous and lawful, and a policeman can send you to jail without trial.

Of course it is, if for some weird reason you think that assembly = R&D ...

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