re: #135 Decatur Deb

The correct answer is “neither of the extremes”. There is a necessary conflict between needed secrecy and public awareness, and this screwup is part of it. What Snowden and Manning do show is that the spook community, including contractors and the military chain of command, can both screw the pooch.

And that’s the point I was getting at earlier, that there is a middle ground where some secrets are kept but the public is not kept totally in the dark, and we did not elect Glen Greenwald or Edward Snowden to make the decision about where that middle ground is.