National security

When we make "tradeoffs" for "national security," shouldn't we know what we're trading off?

"Since President Obama is asking us to trade some of our privacy with respect to our phone calls and our use of the Internet for greater protection against terrorism, at the very least we need to know exactly how our privacy is being violated."-- Aryeh Neier, in a New York Review of Books blogpost,"Spying on Americans: A Very Old Story"by KenIn this voluminous NYRB blogpost (I'm thinking it mus