Surveillance 

Why Doesn’t the Intelligence Community Care Whether Its Surveillance Programs Work?

The House and Senate Intelligence Committee just passed a cybersecurity bill that critics argue isn’t likely to improvecybersecurity. In fact, because it undermines the privacy of electronic communications by encouraging companies to broadly share private data with the government and each other, it may actually damage cybersecurity. For anyone who follows intelligence policy, this shouldn’t be a surprise. The intelligence community all too often launches grand new programs without conducting the appropriate research and evaluations to determine whether they will work, or simply create new harms.