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Re:NSA leaker is a patriot, not a traitor by dllthomas on Monday June 10, 2013 @10:18PM (#5859166)
I agree that we need radical transparency in government, but I think this goes too far.

First, we have to recognize that these are still people, and people do not function well with zero privacy (which is part of the problem here).

Second, any information the government keeps about me should be kept secret from others (though I should be able to pull - and contest - it, potentially with a time delay if I am being investigated).

However, we really do need to open things up. Secret programs in particular are fundamentally broken in a democracy - supposedly, our elected officials have oversight; but we have no means of assessing how good of a job they are doing in that capacity.

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