End the Stealth Government By Andrew C. McCarthy
Imagine if a public official, safe in the shadows of anonymity, penned a directive that radically rewrote American intelligence-collection law -- statutes enacted by our democratically elected officials and signed into law by elected presidents (including elected Democrat presidents, hyper-sensitive to privacy concerns).
Imagine that, rather than having such a critical national security decision made in the light of day, the anonymous public official issued the directive in secret — insulated from any political process in which the people whose lives hang in the balance were free to determine the appropriate line between liberty and security.
Imagine that we were not just barred from learning the name of the official; we were actually foreclosed from reading the directive under which we were now ruled.
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