This is an excerpt from the new e-book Surveillance Nation: Critical Reflections on Privacy and Its Threats, a fascinating and timeless alternative history on the rise of the surveillance state.
members, yes. there was an effort to keep information from us. in fact, just last week, we had information that a classified document was going to be made available. they told us the day before and they sent it through an unusual channel where nobody would really see it my staff happened to find it everyone who attended the meeting that i talked to attended it because i told them that there was a briefing going on. they didn t actually know there was a briefing. because it was it was put out there in such an invisible sort of way. laura: congressman, i think the policy debate needs to be had. and it s a really important one much the public is really engaged on this issue on surveillance nation. i think it s a good debate. the question of constitutionality whether this is unconstitutional. that s a lot trickier. i m not confident that the court would necessarily say this was unconstitutional. given the fact that the duration of calls. that doesn t really meet the fourth amendment sc
members, yes. there was an effort to keep information from us. in fact, just last week, we had information that a classified document was going to be made available. they told us the day before and they sent it through an unusual channel where nobody would really see it my staff happened to find it everyone who attended the meeting that i talked to attended it because i told them that there was a briefing going on. they didn t actually know there was a briefing. because it was it was put out there in such an invisible sort of way. laura: congressman, i think the policy debate needs to be had. and it s a really important one much the public is really engaged on this issue on surveillance nation. i think it s a good debate. the question of constitutionality whether this is unconstitutional. that s a lot trickier. i m not confident that the court would necessarily say this was unconstitutional. given the fact that the duration of calls. that doesn t really meet the fourth amendment sc