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Assistant Dean of the College John O’Keefe, a staunch defender of the new policy, admits that the higher standards are bound to have some side effects. But those are hard to know before the change takes place. The first few classes to swallow the bitter pill will...
But that pledge is less than reassuring. Keefe presents evidence suggesting that illegal surveillance happens all the time—in intercepting communications of U.S. citizens involved in anti-war and civil-rights activities, for example. Yet he purposefully reserves judgment on the frightening implications of his anecdotes, seeming to...
In his insistently neutral approach, Keefe ignores the police-state ramifications of these abuses and seems almost willing to abdicate the right of privacy, repeatedly asking: “Why should I worry about privacy if I have nothing to hide?” He suggests that privacy rights activists...
Keefe, in addition, is surprisingly willing to take the Bush administration’s claims on face value. He frames the declaration of war on Iraq as an honest mistake resulting from over-reliance on signals intelligence—ignoring the many other factors that clearly influenced the current administration?...
Towards the end of the book, Keefe describes how previous investigative journalists ran into trouble with the NSA trying to block the publication of their books. Keefe himself describes how he met with only smug disregard when he tried to leverage his own investigative work in order to get interviews...