It feeds the present political discussion, of course. If Hunter had been live-monitored, she could not have evolved the strategy in her mind without being caught doing it. Indeed, the decision to do it would have been enough to bring her to the attention of the Witness, and she would now be alive. But at the same time, Hunter was not a recidivist or a violent sociopath. Why should she be pre-emptively monitored in her own head?