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Friday, June 7, 2013

No Such Agency

Nick Gillespie rightly grinds up a bunch of lame apologias (or half-hearted critiques) of the National Security Agency. The argument that its newly revealed collection efforts are no big deal because Facebook collects info on you too is so ludicrous that I would've thought even Slate wouldn't publish it. If there's a compelling national-security argument for why the government has to suck in all this information, we haven't heard it yet.