Friday, September 27, 2013

Ignorance Is Ratification: How Congress unknowingly approved the mass collection of Americans' phone records

09/27/13

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent discovers that the plans for a highway project involving demolition of his house have been "on display" in the basement of a government building at "the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'" The Obama administration has a similar idea of what adequate notice means in the context of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance activities.

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