A public debate over the government’s surveillance programs...
A public debate over the government’s surveillance programs is “long overdue,” said Tim Edgar, deputy for civil liberties in the office of the director of national intelligence from 2006 to 2009. The Bush administration’s decision to secretly expand the government’s…
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surveillance authorities after 9/11 was a “colossal mistake,” said Edgar, now a visiting fellow at Brown University. The decision was “made mostly at the behest of [former Vice President Dick] Cheney and allies of Cheney … who never liked the FISA law in the first place,” he said Tuesday at the 23rd annual conference on computers, freedom and privacy. ACLU Policy Counsel Mike German said the public should demand “complete transparency into these programs to ensure that these programs aren’t doing harm.” He quoted former Justice Louis Brandeis and said: “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”