murder. people would pick up a hitch-hiking hippie. there was no big deal. but after the manson murders, you saw a hippie with long hair hitch-hiking and the image of manson would enter the driver s mind and they would drive right by. by the time of charles manson and watching altamont and what happened there, it symbolized the drained idealism of the spiritual quest of the beats and early hippies. today, the magic is gone. aimless and disorganized, the hippies have fallen prey to their own free spirit. free love, free drugs and too much free publicity have gradually corrupted them. somebody happened to haight-ashbury since last year. we hear it s not the same place. it s not. the love-ins brought more and
130,000 dixie cups, and i believe we served 200,000 people. by now there are tens of millions of people who feel themselves to be an irresistible river of change. and you get something incandescent. freedom, freedom, freedom freedom, freedom, freedom singing freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom freedom, freedom, freedom we had had love-ins in l.a. on the weekends where everybody gets dressed up and goes to the park and brings an instrument. but to see hundreds of thousands of people, like a meeting of all the tribes from all over the country. boy, we didn t know there were so many of us who felt the same. [ cheers and applause ]
that there weren t great controls within the nsa on what kind of information people could access. you know, earlier in the decade we heard about all this love-ins. people at the nsa sneaking in on lovers called home, and it doesn t seem like they cleaned that up. i think it mate fall to the agencies to establish much better controls on the inside. that is a huge point. there are more than four million people with security clearances of various types. that s too much. there are too many classified documents, too many secrets, want enough transparency about how much data we re collecting. maybe edward snowden s leg as where i will be to change that. snowden wasn t even working for the nsa. so much of this stuff is contracted out right now. you should do another segment on the problems of contracting. promise to come back. i m in. any time, all the time for you. ronan farrow. matt sledge of the huffington