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| NSA records about 5 billion cellphone locations daily. "We can and should be more transparent" says Obama. |
When you and I are wishing our coffee could automatically find its way into our veins, he has already ingested potential threats to the safety of America. Every morning.
No wonder Obama and Bush mirror each other on this issue.
If there is anything of real value that we can take away from his speech, it is the reality that everything we wish to recapture from before 9-11 is no longer coming back. Our world is now subject to the impact of terrorism and is thus subject to the demand of diligence and vigilance.
President Obama did a fabulous job at easing the concerns of our citizens and our allies, even as he reminded everyone of our leadership role concerning technology and or duty relative to technological security worldwide. By March 28th, the NSA program will come under congressional review demanding they vote to end or extend the program. Since this program was a reactionary response to a social crisis, the NSA data collection practices and procedures have never been subject to a reasonable debate. In today's speech, president Obama encouraged that debate, and offered a few other basic proposals that will end up informing us of what we should already know.
There is nothing we can do about curtailing this governmental power because we have yet to discover the extent of its necessity in the worldwide battle against terrorism. We know that out of control powers can abuse this information, but there is really no way of closing pandora's meta data box or breaching the confidentiality demands of those we've entrusted with our safety and security.
In the war of protecting ourselves from the unknown, the standard for what should remain unknown has yet to be determined.
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