Pattern matching your lead investigator's thought process yields the following generalization:
> Anything that evades oversight and investigation or makes police's job harder is suspicious
They don't actually consider privacy as legitimate or justified. They think protecting oneself is "suspicious", criminal behavior. It's just like the guy who hires a lawyer instead of talking to police -- obviously guilty. In their minds, upstanding people just expose everything for all to see without a care in the world and let the chips fall where they may. They see themselves as people who are weighed down by checks and balances and basic civil rights and other such forms of worthless, meaningless red tape. Just think how many criminals this guy might arrest if he had limitless power like the NSA. He totally wouldn't get caught spying on his wife like all the others, no sir.
> Anything that evades oversight and investigation or makes police's job harder is suspicious
They don't actually consider privacy as legitimate or justified. They think protecting oneself is "suspicious", criminal behavior. It's just like the guy who hires a lawyer instead of talking to police -- obviously guilty. In their minds, upstanding people just expose everything for all to see without a care in the world and let the chips fall where they may. They see themselves as people who are weighed down by checks and balances and basic civil rights and other such forms of worthless, meaningless red tape. Just think how many criminals this guy might arrest if he had limitless power like the NSA. He totally wouldn't get caught spying on his wife like all the others, no sir.