This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Saturday, June 11,

2022. I'm Caleb Brown.

The Kato Institute's Patrick Edington has already gone some distance

toward helping the public better understand

misconduct at the Federal Bureau of

Investigation.

Gollingly, what he's revealed is that almost none of the misconduct appears to have

garnered any accountability. We spoke this week about why Congress is now getting involved and what

accountability ought to prevail.

Cato's Peter Van Doorden likes to tell, I think it relates to a broad range of government policy areas which is you're not

supposed to prop open fire doors right you're not supposed to do that but you know

sometimes it just gets hot

and you've got a really good reason for doing it,

so you prop open the fire door.

And then it becomes, well, you know,

it's not a standard practice.

Look, I know we're not supposed to prop open fire doors.

It becomes like a standard practice.

And you forget at some point the reason why you're not supposed to do that.

And I feel like a lot of our surveillance infrastructure

sort of kind of operates the same way, which is we have these horrible events, we understand

that those that we need to put guardrails on the surveillance capabilities that the federal government has.

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