So why is our government doing the same?
In its response, the department said that in this case “disclosure of classified information – even under protective order – would create intolerable risks to national security.”
Why, to protect those who ordered this illegal, unconstitutional wiretapping from prosecution. It, of course, reaches to the highest level of government and the basis for the program was nothing more than paranoia. Not a damn thing to do with national security. That’s always the claim, and it always comes out (too late to do anything about it) that “national security” just means “covering the ass of the last guy in power.”
It’s happened time and again in this country. So much for a government “Of the people, by the people.” We have a government “Of the government, by the government” – something the framers of the Constitution warned against. Once a government becomes about itself and not about the people it governs, it’s no longer true democracy.
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