Paging Franz Kafka
Are we sure the Bush Administration isn’t well read? I mean, this is straight out of Franz Kafka and George Orwell:
The first public meeting of a Bush administration “civil liberties protection panel” had a surreal quality to it, as the five-member board refused to answer any questions from the press, and stonewalled privacy advocates and academics on key questions about domestic spying.
[...] The three-hour meeting, held at Georgetown University, quickly established that the panel would be something less than a fierce watchdog of civil liberties. Instead, members all but said they view their job as helping Americans learn to relax and love warrantless surveillance.
More in Wired’s 27b/6 blog. In the immortal words of Mr. Orwell:
And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed-if all records told the same tale-then the lie passed into history and became the truth.
Goodnight.
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Not well read? You forget that the President himself was reading Camus’ The Stranger and three Shakespeares earlier this summer.