david
who an to meet again
sort of mentioning how insane this guy has become it's always worth mentioning
but i guess it is everyone needs a reminder just in case you're reading it
and forget
david bruck says although obviously terrifically bright
speaking of snow did he could not successfully work its way through the
institution of high school
penny failed to navigate his way through community college
and according to the washington post he is not that our regular presence around
his mother's house for years
well
he also made it clear he wanted joan neighborly relationships
he went to work for booz allen hamilton in the c_i_a_ but he is separated
himself from them too
is believes he appears to be a product of one of the more unfortunate runs at
the age
the atomization of society the loosening of social bonds
the apparently growing share of young men in their twenties who are living
technological existence is
in the fuzzy land between their childhood institutions
an adult family commitments
on look at you matt
if you live a life unchanged by the mediating institutions of civil society
perhaps it makes sense to see the world in a certain way
life is not embedded in a series of gently gray dated authoritative
structures family neighborhood religious groups state nation and world instead
it's just a solitary naked individual
and the gigantic menacing state
in other words
what brooks' lamenting here
and suggesting is that it's not mad
a wife in a kid
of multiple kids
you wouldn't have the guts to do something like this
which made b
the case
and if that's the case
the david bruck's got work to the n_s_a_
and start to bat everybody because it works there
because he is just discovered something apparently
all those people do the vetting at n_s_a_ haven't realized
big brother is not the only danger facing the country
writes david brooks another is the rising tide of distrust
the corrosive spread of cynicism
the friend of the social fabric
and the rise of people who are so individualistic in their outlook that
they have no real understanding of how to mit others together
and look after the common good
for society to function well they have to be basic levels of trust in
cooperation
a respect for institutions
and common procedures
by deciding to unilaterally leak n_s_a_ documents notin has betrayed all that
now deal icy hot twisted does
we have a secret program
that has been authorized by secret law
that in this
society
we
as constituents of our representatives
cannot know this secret law
we cannot challenge this secret law because he's so secret that we have no
ability to access the courts
to challenge its constitutionality
we have
director of
national intelligence
bald-faced lying
on in multiple ways
to our elected representatives
and david brooks is promoting the loss
of basic levels of trust in cooperation
and respect for institutions in common procedures
because this guy's shelled that the hat
and of
intelligence in this country the director of national does la
outright lied to are added to our trade elected representatives
you show that in fact we all have standing to go in transition a court of
law
and the problem is simply that
that guy
that single twenty nine-year-old
and god knows what all of these establishment figures would have written
howdy waited another six months and became thirty
because that guys
revealed all of this to us
he betrayed
his friends
he betrayed honesty and integrity
the foundation of our cooper of activity
he betrayed his employers
he betrayed because of the open government
every time there's a leak like this the powers that be close the circle of trust
that a little tighter
they limit debate a little more
how much more click debate have been limited on these programs
you had saturdays
having to sort of
trying to paint
to their staffers
something's really bad here
it's bigger than a bread box
no debate could not be any more clothes
on this than it had been
you add the director
of national intelligence
lying to a senator
blatantly
senator
can we address this in private session
the questions you're asking me are too sensitive
not senator that's not a question i feel comfortable asking and answering in open
session
not senator i'll amend my answer to you in the record
none of that he lied
and the senator newly lighting couldn't do anything about it
and snow in the trade and open
on because of open government
this is just absurd
if u
if u talk back to that bully he may hitch a harder next time
that's basically what
brooks' argument is
and friedman's is just a veiled threat
it can get worse people
he can get worse
it's stunning
i know this is just a small thing but since snow in
elite disinformation
google and face book has been both opened called for the government
to allow them to be more transparent by letting them publish the requested
receive
for personal data so i mean if that's not helping out open gut open government
out model that we would like to as i am
i don't know what is i mean he did do something
absolutely of course and we also know that the a_c_l_u_ file that suit earlier
this week
seeking the faiza justifications
we also know that
jeff markley
has introduced a bill
that would force the government to reveal how interprets the lies
underpinning
these programs
in other words
no more secret law
no more secret opinions
as to what the government can do
particularly for something that supposedly everybody was aware was being
done