26.10.2013 - 06:36 [ Techdirt ]

NSA Defender Argues That Too Much Transparency Defeats The Purpose Of Democracy

Paul Rosenzweig, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at Homeland Security, was supposed to testify for the House Intelligence Committee about NSA surveillance. The hearing was postponed and Rosenzweig can‘t make the new date, but he‘s posted the testimony he intended to give, in which he makes this incredible claim:

„Transparency is good. Too much transparency defeats the very purpose of democracy.“