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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, June 21, 2013

Snowden And Greenwald's Legacy

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/intelligence-committee-wyden-snowden-came.php?ref=fpblg

If they want to have a positive outcome of all this, then changing the Senate rules and oversight is the most important thing that could happen.  Changing FISA transparency would also be a huge step.

Somehow, I don't think making Congress and the Courts more transparent and more accountable is really what these two have in mind, but it would be a nice step and a positive outcome.

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