Doublespeak Denials of PRISM Hid the Truth About Participation
8th June 2013
This is the most disturbing aspect of the current kerfuffle: The expanded powers of the Federal government are now biting us all on the butt, and it is an insufficient safeguard of our rights to have in place running the system the people who were the loudest critics of the system when they were out of power. The lesson here is that power corrupts, and we’re never going to have saints in charge of the government, so our only effective protection is to take steps to limit the power that the government does have.