
“Because of the efforts of President Barack Obama’s Administration to quash any release of even a smidgen of information about the government’s surveillance program, his comment today that he looked forward to a ‘debate’ on the issue was met with skepticism. Then, hours later, the Department of Justice responded to a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation trying to stop the release of a secret court opinion connected to the very surveillance program about which Obama claimed to want to debate.”
http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/07/our-open-surveillance-debate-doj-wants-t
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