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Changing Minds on Edward Snowden
by TMC
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Jimmy Carter administration Hodding Carter III has changed his mind about Edward Snowden whose leaks of NSA programs to the public has sparked the debate a the renewal of the Patriot Act. In an article in Salon, he explains his change of heart and offered an apology to The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald.
Glenn Greenwald, I'm sorry: Why I changed my mind on Edward Snowden
What follows is based on sixty years of experience in public life and journalism. It arises from deepening concern about the people's limited appreciation of the First Amendment and disgust with media waffling behind timidity's breastworks. It also arises from urgent unease about government overreach in the name of "homeland security," an overreach based on post-9/11 fear, political opportunism and an all but explicit assertion that a free people do not need to know and should not demand to know how they are being protected. There is no pretense here of carefully allocated balance, that briefly treasured convention of American journalism. Instead, this is an attempt to explain the evolution of today's media-government confrontations and to suggest answers to the hard questions that currently face the press when national security clashes with the Bill of Rights.
Unless informed consent is to be treated as a dangerous relic of more tranquil times, these questions should be answered on behalf of the American people as often as they arise. That means applying general principles to specific cases. Knowing the evolution of press freedom can be useful. Having an accurate picture of the chaotic realities of the murky present is crucial. Hard cases are inevitable; hard-and-fast rules are rarely available and too often inapplicable to current conditions. In the end, as always, it is up to each journalist and news organization to be willing to stand alone, to ask, and to answer individually:
Mr. Carter and Glenn Greenwald appeared on MSNBC's "The Last Word" to discuss the surveillance and the firght over the renewal of the Patriot Act.
Tags: Edward Snowden, fourth amendment, Glenn Greenwald, Hodding Carted III, Mass Surveillance, National Security Agency, NSA, Patriot Act, Politics, TMC Politics
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