Lew:

I think Ed Snowden was right in suggesting that ordinary human beings are increasingly opposed to governmental surveillance of everything we do, say, think; where we travel and what we purchase; with whom we associate, etc. That does not apply to members of the power structure – including their media sock-puppets – who regard the availability of such information as necessary for the “national security” against imagined “threats” they persist in dreaming up. But wait, it has just been revealed that someone – of the reviled “hackers” class – has been “surveilling” government personnel files of millions of its employees. Oh, no, no! This is a job only for NSA “security officials,” not for those who might believe that if it is all right for the government to have unrestrained access to the private information of millions of Americans, those surveilled Americans should also have access to the private information of millions of government employees.

Oh, what to do, what to do? Just stay tuned to CNN and Wolf Blitzer will resolve the dilemma in a way that upholds the state’s powers, while condemning the actions of the “hackers.”

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