"The Times story should theoretically prompt still more urgency here. It demonstrates that the FISA court has created this new body of secret law “without hearing from anyone outside the government, forgoing the adversarial system that is a staple of the American justice system.” To reiterate, pushing for the declassification of the opinions authorizing the NSA programs — which could be done in summary form or with redactions to protect sensitive information if necessary — does not constitute opposition to the programs themselves. Dems should support this step, and push for it. If they have a good reason to oppose it, they should tell us what it is." washingtonpost/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/07/08/dem-leaders-must-step-it-up-on-nsa-surveillance/
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:00:37 +0000