38 ordspråk av Steven Aftergood
Steven Aftergood
 A lot of what we think we know of our recent history may be mistaken, ... It is a disgrace that it should be so in a democracy, but it is. |
| an implicit repudiation of the CIA, which was established to be the central focus and the integrator of the nation's intelligence production. |
| As a practical matter, it has proven difficult to either reform or abolish the CIA, ... The logical alternative may be to simply create an entirely new agency. |
| As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake. |
| FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken. |
| FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left, and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken. |
| I don't think anybody welcomed that proposal. It wouldn't serve the interests of those who benefit from the status quo. |
| I presume it's an attempt to provide some context for the information that was disclosed. If such information was already in public circulation or widely disseminated, that could arguably mitigate anything the defendants did wrong by communicating it. |
| I think it's driven by the individual agencies, which have bureaucratic sensitivities to protect. But it was clearly encouraged by the administration's overall embrace of secrecy. |
| I think there is enormous understanding and tolerance for an argument from necessity, and there's willingness to retroactively forgive what might strictly speaking be violations of the law. |
| I think there will be problems and cases where employees are tripped up by the tests, ... But the bureau as a whole will adapt. |
| I thought, Wow!, ... Here's a historical revelation that will cause the history books to be rewritten. No one's ever heard of a U.S. nuclear test in the Sudan in 1962. |
| If receiving and passing on national defense information is a crime, we're going to have to build a lot more jails. To make a crime of the kind of conversations Rosen and Weissman had with Franklin over lunch would not be surprising in the People's Republic of China. But it's utterly foreign to the American political system. |
| If the FBI can persuade a court that there is probable cause that there are stolen records in that collection, then they should go to court. They cannot bully or attempt to intimidate the family or the university into surrendering private records. |
| If you don't have the possibility of asking questions and presenting answers that officials may find unwelcome, then you short circuit the deliberative process, end up magnifying the power of the executive and undermining the system of checks and balances. Needless to say the press is not immune from criticism. But the possibility of independent reporting on government needs to be preserved or all of us are potentially in jeopardy. |
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