Showing posts with label The Trouble With Secrets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Trouble With Secrets. Show all posts

The Trouble With Secrets

That’s a lot of security clearances.

The Foundation

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” –George Washington

Editorial Exegesis

That’s a lot of security clearances.
“Channelling Joan of Arc with a side of Henry David Thoreau’s civil disobedience, Edward Snowden revealed his identity this week as a martyr on behalf of ‘an existential threat to democracy.’ … His unlikely career path took him from community college washout to NSA security guard to Central Intelligence Agency IT specialist to consultant with the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Only in America. Mr. Snowden maintains that he has ‘no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.’