Spinning Evil

[tevarin]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4718328.stm

"A US state department legal adviser said the government felt it was better for the photos not to be released. John Bellinger said this was "not because there was anything to hide" - but rather "because we felt it

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[vrimj]

Given a choice I would want a live 24/7 webcam from any prison where I was being held by a hostile govement. Sure I would lose some privacy, but it would be FAR outweighed by the privacy the goverment would lose.
Nasty things like the shadows, it is a problem when dealing with privacy issues. I think the distinction is to be made between personal privacy, which should be protected, govemental privacy which should almost never be protected (it it were up to me classification would be though a grand jury, rather then an adminstive process, the potental for leaks in such a system is a feature, not a bug) and the privacy of non-persons (like corporations) which should be somewhere in the middle.

Side note:

[vrimj]

The Bush adminstration has repetably taken the postion that these people lack even basic constitional and treaty rights, now they are trying to defend their privacy rights? The same right class that repulicans usually reject even for CITIZENS as being extra-constitional?

Re: Side note:

[tevarin]

*laugh* good point. Somebody needs to ask Bush or Gonzales just what they think privacy rights are.