Public comments are a joke. I know this because I once worked for a contractor to a very large government 3-letter agency. And we would have these public comment sessions where we would record and write down all public comments and sum them up in a nice little report.... and then the agency would just go ahead and do what they had planned to do in the first place. It was about that time that I started becoming suspicious of the government in general, and my opinion has only gotten worse in the ensuing years.