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Rosenzweig Now Chairman of DHS Privacy Board
An anonymous reader writes "Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer and prominent proponent of the Pentagon's controversial Total Information Awareness project, has been
appointed the first chairman of the Department of Homeland Security's privacy board. This follows the appointment of an executive of Gator to the board. Lee Tien, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that, rather than viewing protection of privacy as priority, Rosenzweig 'tends to view privacy as something to be circumvented.' Are the foxes guarding the henhouse when it comes to government and privacy?"
I totally agree with this guy. We haven't been successfully attacked on American soil since 9/11.
The Patriot Act is one reason we have been so successful in busting up terrorist cells and disrupting their networks. It is a valuable and lawful tool that law enforcement has considered invaluable in the War Against Terror.
I'm glad this Rosenzweig is on the Board. He has a lot of common sense.
Listen up, Mr. Freeman; I'm only going to say this once:
The 1984 references are getting very, very tired. Not every bleak occurance is an appropriate occasion to invoke Orwell (or Huxley, or whoever else). Having read a classic book does not make you clever. Lamenting over our tragically totalitarian Amerikan state is not political activism, it's melodramatic whinging. Don't get me wrong; this kind of news gets me as mad as any of you, if not more so. I'm quite a rabid, volatile little libertarian. But please, your radical ideas about life imitating art have already occured to others. Get over yourselves.
Am I ranting into the wind? Sure. But dammit, I get angry.
"There are hundreds of game theorists at the gates, sir, and they want to hold an election!"