re: #45 Charles Johnson

And it’s not entirely crazy to think this way after a terrorist group drives airplanes into two of the tallest buildings in the US, traumatizes the entire country, and costs the US economy trillions of dollars.

But it’s time to renegotiate the privacy/security equation.

Oh, I agree completely! It’s the *how* of that renegotiation that is the devil-in-the-details. How much should we demand that the NSA/FISA courts back *down* when we don’t know how much they have pushed *up*?

Like I said, a puzzlement. Negotiating from ignorance is damned near impossible. If you don’t know what the threats to civil liberties look like like, it’s tough to identify which one you want modified.