The "Liberal View" on the NSA scandal.
Title: The liberal case for high-tech NSA surveillance
Author: Bill Scher June 12th 2013
http://theweek.com/article/index/245464/the-liberal-case-for-high-tech-nsa-surveillance
The "Conservative View" on the NSA scandal.
Title: NSA Surveillance Angers Our Allies!
Author: Not posted
http://www.conservative-daily.com/2013/10/24/nsa-surveillance-angers-our-allies/
NY Times point of view, lightly leaning left, just how I like it.
Title: N.S.A. Gathers
Data on Social
Connections of
U.S. Citizens
Author: James Risen & Laura Poitras
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html?_r=0
I am neither liberal nor conservative. I am neither libertarian nor socialist. However, I do lean left. This means when i read the article from Conservative Daily i was far out of my comfort zone. When i read the article on the recent NSA spying scandal entitled "NSA Surveillance Angers Our Allies!", i was expecting a bashing on our current president and his health care reform. What i got instead, to my genuine surprise, was a well thought out concise argument about why the NSA privacy breaches hurts our government.
Throughout the article, the author (who is unknown) continually reiterates his or her point that the spying will only hurt our government and its relationships with other countries. He /she mentions that "The NSA already has some 70 million French phone conversations on record!" and that when the German Chancellor found out that she was being wire tapped called it a "serious breach of trust...". The spying violates international law, as well as anger our allies. Before long, the author calls to arms all the readers, stating that the violations continue in "YOUR BACKYARD".
The trick with spying is to make sure your enemies don't know how you're spying on them. The magic of spying is to make bloody sure your friends don't know you're spying on them, too...and making deals with your enemies with that information. Thoughts?
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