{"id":186303,"date":"2014-03-06T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/06\/well-this-is-chilling\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T03:27:00","slug":"well-this-is-chilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/06\/well-this-is-chilling\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, this is Chilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander is touting, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/mar\/04\/nsa-chief-keith-alexander-david-miranda\">unspecified &#8216;headway&#8217; on what he termed &#8216;media leaks&#8217;\u201d was forthcoming in the next several weeks, possibly to include \u201cmedia leaks legislation.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>One wonders whether some skullduggery he has gotten my distinguished cousin<sup>*<\/sup> to back some sort of draconian equivalent to the awful Official Secrets Act that is in force in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bad idea because it shreds the Constitution, and it&#8217;s a bad idea because, as <a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/02\/11\/terrible-toll-secrecy\/\">Dan Froomkin so aptly notes<\/a>, &#8220;History has shown time and again that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/united_states_project\/the_case_for_a_secrecy_beat.php?page=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">secrecy<\/a> and bad decisions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/how-state-secrecy-leads-to-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go hand in hand<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It will make us less safe, not more safe. <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Dianne Feinstein, whoser grandfather, Sam Goldman, and my great-grandfather, Harry Goldman, were brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NSA Chief Keith Alexander is touting, &#8220;unspecified &#8216;headway&#8217; on what he termed &#8216;media leaks&#8217;\u201d was forthcoming in the next several weeks, possibly to include \u201cmedia leaks legislation.&#8220; One wonders whether some skullduggery he has gotten my distinguished cousin* to back some sort of draconian equivalent to the awful Official Secrets Act that is in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1020,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-legislation","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}