Look at how extensive the federal government's powers that they sought, (UNINTEL) wiretaps, all kinds of counter-terror procedures.

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There are a variety of reasons as to this and some of them are benign, such as raised costs now because more people want new procedures, but administrative costs, paperwork, perverse incentives, all kinds of structural things are wrong with the system that have to be fixed.

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