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'Let Me Stress How Shocking NSA Revelations Are': View From Inside Defense World

• panarky 13y ago
  "At the risk of Godwining the email, this is the essence of the 'banality of evil' in the precise Arendtian sense of the term." "Those charged with assessing the risk we face are the same ones who will be blamed for underestimating it. They are also the ones who benefit by overstating the dangers." "The national-security complex was charged after 9-11 with this credo: 'Never Again'. This is a mission so absolute that it permits no cost-benefit analysis of any kind." "The surveillance-state apparatus creates a chilling effect on the very democratic activity that is prerequisite to its dismantling."