Showing posts with label severe limit on degree to which transparency can be reconciled with functions of government that must be opaque. Show all posts
Showing posts with label severe limit on degree to which transparency can be reconciled with functions of government that must be opaque. Show all posts
Monday, April 6, 2015
The Big Snoop: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorists; Brookings Essay
Stuart Taylor, Jr., Brookings Essay; The Big Snoop: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorists:
The challenge is captured in the most famous sentence that F. Scott Fitzgerald ever wrote, in an essay three-quarters of a century ago: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." That is also the test of a first-rate intelligence agency in the service of a robust democracy."
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