We live in far more dangerous times than we realize. 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/c...story.html

 

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"...what’s potentially most dangerous to this country’s democratic future is not so much that these abuses occurred, which was already well established, but that congressional oversight of the CIA, and public discussion of it, should be developing along the same partisan political lines that quickly form around every other issue in today’s polarized Washington."

 

"Thus does the United States approach a slippery slope, at the bottom of which lies an intelligence community that sees itself as the whipping boy of one political party and protected favorite of another — to the latter of which it owes reciprocal obligations."

 

"What made the Stasi, Gestapo and KGB especially threatening to political freedom was their subordination to, and seamless integration with, totalitarian political parties. Those parties’ ambitions were especially monstrous, to be sure. But for a secret intelligence service, even ideologically moderate partisanship would be corrosive and corrupting, both for itself and for the wider society."

 

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This is scary stuff. 

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