2 thoughts on “The DHS “Privacy Violations””

  2. I can’t get too worked up about this, either. For me, if there’s any issue at all here, it’s whether this is a good use of taxpayer dollars. In a previous generation we would have had rooms full of bureaucrats carefully clipping and photocopying articles from dozens of newspapers around the world, and placing them into carefully labeled files — “Bolivia Guerrillas”, “Indonesia Communist Party 1966″…. Other bureaucrats would read the files and, after a lot of chin-pulling, write memos of anything but memorable import.

    The internet has made this process at once vastly more efficient and vastly more unmanageable. 45 years ago the Pentagon pulled together key memos and intelligence to document how the United States got entangled in Southeast Asia, and the information filled a book. Can you imagine how many gigabytes — terabytes? — of files would go into a similar dossier on our involvement in Iran, just in the last few years?

    So, memo to the Alliance — good luck keeping up with the Signal.

Comments are closed.