Bush Visits Security Agency and Defends Surveillance

By ELISABETH BUMILLER and ERIC LICHTBLAU

Published at The New York Times: January 26, 2006

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 — President Bush went Wednesday to the heart of the debate over the National Security Agency's eavesdropping program, the supersecret agency itself, where he sought to bolster employee morale and make a case for ordering a surveillance program that has come under increasing political attack.

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And I remenber these words by Prof. Marx:


"In one sense, there are two problems with the new surveillance technologies. One is that they don’t work and the other is that they work too well. If the first, they fail to prevent disasters, bring miscarriages of justice, and waste resources. If the second, they can further inequality and invidious social categorization; they chill liberty. These twin threats are part of the enduring paradox of democratic government that must be strong enough to maintain reasonable order, but not so strong as to become undemocratic." Gary T. MARX
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