they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—ben franklin
the govt is gearing up to put the squeeze on reporters to learn who gave them the "sensitive" information that the NSA did domestic spying.
actually, the only thing sensitive about it is that da prez authorized doing it without the court consent the law requires.
if the administration classified that, then it was a further abuse of power, namely using official secrecy to carry out a coverup.
by going after reporters, they compound the offense.
da prez, both in the state of the union and since, and his apologists, like sen pat roberts (r-ks) in today's hearing, keep rationalizing warrantless eavesdropping with emotional appeals to terrified americans, trying to rally cowardly majority support that will trash the bill of rights in the name of national security.
we are forced to say to them: however pure your motives, if you succeed you set a precedent usable by possible future unscrupulous leaders.
don't dump the safeguards against that.
get warrants!
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