I will grant the need for certain operational secrets, especially as those operations are going on. But …
'In the letter, [Senators] Wyden and Udall reiterated their concerns about hiding the nature of the program from the American public, urging a balance between national security and government transparency. "As we see it, there is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows," Wyden and Udall wrote. "This is a problem, because it's impossible to have an informed public debate about what the law should say when the public doesn't know what its government thinks the law says."'
Which, PATRIOT Act-wise, may be just what some folks like, but ultimately it's poison to a democracy. "Too Many Secrets …" #ddtb
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Patriot Act Secrecy Unjustified, Senators Say
A controversial secret provision of the Patriot Act is not as vital to national security as the government claims, two Democratic senators said in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder.