{"id":6039,"date":"2013-06-10T11:05:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2013-06-10T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T15:07:20","slug":"trust-us-and-theres-plenty-of-oversight-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=6039","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Trust us&#8221; and &#8220;there&#8217;s plenty of oversight, honest!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does an education historian bring to the table on national security debates? Just this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">When have we heard government officials assure the public that they&#8217;re competent and the public doesn&#8217;t need to have more information?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>When we have heard government officials assure the public that there is sufficient oversight of activities?<\/li>\n<li>When has security been used as a rationale for withholding information that is much broader than truly confidential information?<\/li>\n<li>When have government officials complained about the disclosure of information that pretty much everyone knew was going on?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nope, no similarity there at all. For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;d feel much better about FISC if there were a reasonably-funded office of 3-4 people whose jobs were to argue against every broad-scale order &#8212; a Citizens&#8217; Advocate Office staffed with highly competent lawyers and other staff with clearance, as it were, triggered by surveillance that could touch a threshold number of Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does an education historian bring to the table on national security debates? Just this: When have we heard government officials assure the public that they&#8217;re competent and the public doesn&#8217;t need to have more information? When we have heard government officials assure the public that there is sufficient oversight of activities? When has security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11,14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy","category-history","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-1zp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}