It’s the Secrecy, Stupid

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http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/its-the-secrecy-stupid/

Snip: "The problem with secrecy is the same problem we have with most human inventions: a little might perhaps enhance our safety, but too much can hurt us, weaken our nation, and perhaps lead to its dissolution. This whole domestic surveillance mess is made even messier by the fact that the government hid even the broad brush strokes of what they were (and still are) doing. And such information that does leak out seems to indicate that our government is acting in ways that would make Hoover blush. This makes it very hard indeed to trust them: not only do they suspect each and every one of us of being potential Bin Ladens, but they themselves aren’t acting like honest, upstanding citizens who we would be inclined to trust. (Remember Nixon and his “trust me” schtick, and how that turned out?)"

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