[governance] Sen Feinstein open to hearings on surveillance program

[parminder]

On Monday 10 June 2013 10:31 PM, Kerry Brown wrote:
>> But, she added, ³Here¹s the rub: the instances where this has produced
>> good ‹ has disrupted plots, prevented terrorist attacks, is all
>> classified, that¹s what¹s so hard about this.²
> That is what needs to be at the centre of the conversation. Can the good
> things that come out of this be done if there is better oversight? I think
> they can. In any hearings that come out of this I'd like to hear why they
> could not work with better oversight. So far I have not heard any
> arguments that convince me that the same results could not be achieved if
> there was better oversight. I am not necessarily against governments
> getting this data but there has to be oversight to protect against abuses
> and it needs to be publicly disclosed what data they are collecting and
> how it is collected.

Kerry

The oversight of the US system would never be the same for US citizens 
and non US citizens... It fact it will always be vastly different. So, 
not a solution for non US citizens, right! These are some very difficult 
issues of global governance - put in sharp focus by the inherent 
globality of the Internet - which we all seem to avoid persistently...

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> Kerry Brown
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