The news of today was, “Obama pledges spy programme
transparency” He vows to reform Patriot Act to increase transparency and
restore public trust in surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA).
My question is, can the government make a spy
programme transparent? Isn’t a spy program designed to be secret? And if the surveillance
by NSA is secret, how can it be at the same time to be more transparent? Doesn’t
transparent mean that the public is allowed to see right through it and would
know exactly what the NSA and other spying agencies are doing?
And if those spy programmes are not secret, why is
there so much fuss about Edward Snowden. Something is wrong here.
Barack Obama wants us believe that trust is better
than control. However, I still stick to the old saying, control is better that trust.
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