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So you feel that your rights include knowing which military bases intelligence information flows through? I can understand people being outraged at the idea of
by karmacondon 12y ago
So you feel that your rights include knowing which military bases intelligence information flows through?
I can understand people being outraged at the idea of NSA spying and wanting specific programs to end immediately. Whether certain intelligence operations violate your Constitutional or philosophical rights to privacy is an issue that's important to democracy and should be debated vociferously. But there is no legal or moral right that entitles you to know what air force base controls our drone fleet, what the nuclear launch codes are or where our achilles heels are located.
Dumping troves of sensitive data is a bad idea, even if you want the NSA to be completely abolished. Snowden could have just as easily made a speech, instead of handing millions of unread classified documents over to private individuals.
- patrickg_zill 12y agoMay I ask, do you believe, that the Russians, Chinese, Israelis, etc. don't already know all this, already?