“The Debate We’re Not Having: National Security and Civil Liberties” @ Texas Journal of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Blog

Posted on October 24, 2012

Kali Cohn — October 24, 2012: “We live in an age where police chiefs are seeking funding to purchase drones for domestic surveillance, where fusion centers indiscriminately collect information about us in mega-databases around the country, and Congress has granted the President the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens – all in the name of national security.

It’s rather remarkable, then, that in Monday’s Obama/Romney foreign policy debate – where we heard how everything from math teacher shortages to Iranian centerfuges impact national security – there was not one word about how civil liberties might affect our national security policy……………………………”
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