Hey guys....these tools were made to look OUT, at the foreign bad guys.
That is the constraint of the charter for those agencies.
That this administration decided to point them inward is a function of abusing the extentions of the Patriot Act, to track foreign bad guys internally.
The abuse is this administrations focus on Constitution loving, American Conservatives.
NOT the folks who designed the tools!
That is all true but still the issue, as I see it, isn’t about designers but of active, ongoing participants, and their aims. I am open to the prospect those aims are debatable, while highly skeptical given, as you note, the current political climate.