noteworthy wrote:
Evgeny Morozov:
Many of us have bought into the simplistic narrative -- convenient to both Washington and Silicon Valley -- that we just need more laws, more tools, more transparency.
Thomas Powers, in 2005:
More is what Congress is ready to support and fund, more is what the President wants, and more is what we are going to get.
President Barack Obama, in 2014:
There is an inevitable bias not only within the intelligence community, but among all of us who are responsible for national security, to collect more information about the world, not less.
Garry Wills:
Keeping up morale in this vast, shady enterprise is something impressed on [the President] by all manner of commitments. He becomes the prisoner of his own power.
Jeff Jarvis:
I am less concerned with what government knows about me than what we don't know about government.
Wish I could see the FT link.
There is a limit to the value of "oversight" as an effective means of containing the impact of surveillance programs. There are programs that are inherently problematic no matter how much oversight exists, no matter how noble the supposed causes for which they are used.
