This is a big deal. When the New York Times editorial board says that President Obama has “lost all credibility” on the issue of surveillance, he’s definitely not in good shape.
Category: Food For Thought
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So the PATRIOT Act still sucks
Funny, last time I checked, liberals didn’t like the PATRIOT Act. Don’t we have the right to privacy? The Obama Administration apparently doesn’t agree. This is a great example of how once powers are given to the government, they are never relinquished, as even those who vehemently opposed the PATRIOT Act are now using its most controversial provisions.
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Government should be on the record
This is awesome. The government, as a public agency, should rarely be hiding things from the public. There is a place for secrecy. There is sensitive information that the public should not know. That said, for literally 99% of government dealings, they shouldn’t need to go off the record. News outlets keep government accountable, as even President Obama recently said. There’s no place for off the record meetings when addressing a scandal that involves suppressing the press. Good on you New York Times.
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Innovation and Government
This is even more interesting seeing as it’s coming from Harvard. Bottom-Up, innovative solutions are the answers to the problems that our country and our government faces.
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Always the last to know
Seems like our president is never really informed about what his administration is doing. Between the IRS scandal, Benghazi and the media surveillance, he claims that he was either informed late, didn’t have a say in the decision making process, or best yet, found out from the same news sources we did. Either he’s lying, which would suck, or government is simply too big. Shouldn’t government be small enough so that the head of the executive branch knows what it’s doing?
Salutary Neglect 