Here some excerpts for lazy people like me. This is how they try to justify not doing anything about a lack of privacy for US citizens.
Getting a FISA court order is bureaucratically cumbersome and would slow down investigations — especially fast-moving cybercases
Yeah sure, because we dont constantly keep seeing atrocities being commited even when the feds already had intel weeks, months or even years before anything happened.
probable cause needed for a warrant is rarely available early in an investigation. But that’s precisely when these queries are most useful
So we just abolish probable cause and the burden of proof step by step because it makes things slightly easier? Sounds like fascism to me.
You know what would keep us safer? If the most prominent news agency in the US actually did its job and did critical journalism instead of acting like RT news.
For example, more intelligence gathering power given to intelligence agencies would not have stopped the Iraq war. If anything, the more power given to these agencies, the more official they sound when they make boldfaced lies because people assume they most know something actually substantiative with all that intelligence capacity.
We would have just launched even faster into the Iraq war.
Which of course is the point
Waxman worked under Bush as a senior national security advisor. So the administration that believes in torture is advising us that government surveillance is fine and keeps you safe? Not sure I trust the source.
This is a guest opinion essay that many disagree with but find interesting. I don’t think it represents NYT’s views.
What’s the old saying, Ben Franklin said it if I remember right?
Those who would give up freedom in exchange for security deserve neither and will lose both.
What’s the old saying, Ben Franklin said it if I remember right?
Those who would give up freedom in exchange for security deserve neither and will lose both.
The original phrasing was “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” but Franklin didn’t mean what most people quoting it today assume that he meant. (The author of that article is contemptible imo, being the sort of person who often writes things similar to the NYT Opinion piece which this thread is about, but I think his analysis of this particular quote is probably correct. You can read Franklin’s original use of the phrase in context here.)
Oh, man, a pro authoritairan-level-surveillance article from the NYT.
I did NAZI that coming!
NYT is just a propaganda outlet for the US government.
And people scoff at me when I say the NYT isn’t left wing
“authoritarianism is left wing” Is the most smooth brain take I’ve heard so far this year, congrats.
You sound real upset for misreading my comment. Literally claiming the opposite lmao
Neither were the Stasi or the KGB, because reasons
Ah yes, the very comparable NYT and USSR. Brilliant analysis I must say.
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