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I think the speech writer screwed up. I think what he wanted to
say is that the People needed to be transparent to the
Administration, not the other way around. Simple sign-flipped
error. They happen all the time.<br>
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Paul<br>
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On 08/17/2013 08:16 AM, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Obama promised the most transparent administration
ever, but has instead gone after leaks and whistleblowers with
more prosecutions than any - or is it all put together -
previous administrations. He's against leaks except when it
suits him politically; then leaks are okay.<br>
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<hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:50:57 -0400<br>
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Subject: [Vision2020] GPS Tracking and Secret Policies<br>
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<h1>GPS Tracking and Secret Policies</h1>
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<div id="ecxarticleBody"> This week brought fresh
revelations about the National Security Agency’s sloppy
and invasive collection of phone data on Americans and
others, as reported first by The Washington Post. In
another realm of surveillance — the government’s broad use
of location tracking devices — the Justice Department was
in federal court on Thursday defending its refusal to
release memos containing information about its policies
governing the use of GPS and other potentially invasive
technologies. <br>
The American Civil Liberties Union had brought the lawsuit
to demand that the department make the memos public. The
documents were prepared after a 2012 Supreme Court ruling,
United States v. Jones, which held that placement of a
hidden tracking device on a suspect’s car constitutes a
“search” under the Fourth Amendment. <br>
That case left lots of questions unanswered, including
whether GPS tracking always requires a warrant based on
probable cause, and how the Fourth Amendment applies to
tracking someone 24/7 with cellphone location technology.
After the decision was released, the F.B.I.’s general
counsel, Andrew Weissmann, mentioned in a public talk that
the government was issuing memos containing official
guidance for federal agents and prosecutors on when they
can use tracking technology and how the Jones decision
applies to other types of techniques, beyond GPS. <br>
The public has a right to know the government’s policies
on these matters. There is very good reason to be
concerned about the government’s interpretation of its
police powers, especially given the Obama administration’s
insensitivity to privacy in its mass collection of phone
data in the national security sphere. <br>
When the A.C.L.U. filed a request for the memos under the
Freedom of Information Act, the Justice Department
responded by handing over copies with the text nearly
entirely blanked out, prompting the lawsuit. The Justice
Department claims that the memos were prepared
anticipating litigation and are exempt from disclosure
because they are a lawyer’s work product. But to the
extent Mr. Weissmann accurately represented the memos,
they also amount to statements of official policy, not
merely exchanges by lawyers on legal theories, which the
work-product exception is meant to protect. <br>
Our strong hunch is that there is material in the memos
that can and should be revealed without harm to law
enforcement or the appropriate discussion of confidential
legal strategies. At Thursday’s hearing, Judge William
Pauley III said he would personally review the documents
before deciding whether they should be released. <br>
It is distressing that the administration, which claims to
welcome a debate over the government’s surveillance
practices, time and again refuses to be transparent about
those practices. Instead of awaiting a court order, the
administration should release the tracking memos on its
own. <br>
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