Fantastic article today by Peggy Noonan... my favorite part: "Here is a practical reason conservatives especially should be concerned about the national security state. People who work for the government, including inevitably those who work in national security, will not decide their powers are too broad. They can’t—they’re focused on a real foe, they have a mission and it tends to leave them in time thinking their powers aren’t broad enough. They will not declare they need more civilian control or oversight—those dizzy, self-serving politicians just gum up the works. They will not decide to limit their use of the capabilities at their fingertips, especially when the stakes seem so high. It is up to the people in the country, to citizens, to control and limit government surveillance, to the extent they can and in accord with true national-security needs."
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:37:49 +0000
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