Binding the fortunes of policy to personality is always a gamble; oversight + transparency advocates must learn thishttps://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/815304514509082624 …
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What you want is for people only to question Snowden, but not NSA. Both are fair game.
@marasawr -
Not true. I want people to recognize some nucleus of necessary secrecy as legitimate, but welcome IC questioning.
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When govt invokes "necessary secrecy" that subsequently gets exposed as "sloppy propaganda" credibility problem.
@marasawr -
And when leakers’ invocations of ‘necessary transparency’ are subsequently exposed as same, there isn’t?
@Susan_Hennessey -
Yes. Though there is a asymmetry problem.
@Susan_Hennessey -
Right. There are assholes and malefactors on every side of this issue, and on every side they are a minority.
@Susan_Hennessey -
Anti-gov’t polemics may be satisfying, but governance should not be regarded as inherently suspect.
@Susan_Hennessey -
I don't think I'm engaged in anti-govt polemic. I think I'm involved in watchdogging.
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