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Octafish

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20. How Can Congress Debate a Secret Law?

Reply to woo me with science (Reply #19)

Fri Mar 23, 2012, 08:01 AM

Mar 2012

Odd, I don't remember hearing about this on the television screen:

In a joint op-ed, Senators Wyden and Udall explained that secret interpretations of the Patriot Act were preventing Congress from having an open, informed debate on the law’s extension. [font color="blue"][font size="5"]“In a democratic society, government agencies derive their power from the public's trust,” Wyden and Udall wrote, “Secret laws undermine that trust and authority, which then erodes and ultimately damages our ability to fight terrorism and protect the American people.”[/font size][/font color]

SOURCE: http://wyden.senate.gov/issues/issue/?id=1f333bb6-d57f-473b-b98c-04d186d8b48b

Thanks for giving a damn about democracy, woo me with science. I don't understand why so few members of our news media get what we're talking about. I blame Corporate McPravda for the public's apparent apathy.

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