Through a PRISM darkly

[thewayne]

"He's a traitor."
-- House Speaker John Boehner on Edward Snowden

"Hero of the Year."
-- Michael Moore

"Treason...Bring back the death penalty."
-- Fox News analyst Ralph Peters

"The man for which I have waited. Earmarks of a real hero."
-- Glenn Beck

"An act of treason."
-- Sen. Dianne Feinstein

"When you have a dictatorship or an authoritarian government, truth becomes treasonous...For somebody to tell the American people the truth is a heroic effort."
-- Ron Paul

I really, REALLY, hate agreeing with Glenn Beck about something! At least it's over something worthwhile.

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Considering the acts of Nixon in fundamentally committing treason to prolong the Vietnam war prior to his election as POTUS, then followed up by Watergate et al and by Reagan's Iran/Contra shenanigans, we definitely have a need for government transparency.

[silveradept]

Oh, yes. We need a lot of transparency, and fairly quick transparency. Enough of this "national security means we don't say anything at all" bullshit. If you want to say that the public doesn't need to know, then the Intelligence committees need to be able to shut anything down that has even a whiff of being illegal or invasive.