They have no clue what’s out there


by digby

I don’t know if she meant to say this in the way I heard it, but yesterday on Hardball Dana Priest said that these surveillance agencies need young people because the people in charge are “older and less fluent in the technology and they have no clue what’s out there — that they themselves have put out there.”

If that’s true — and I wouldn’t be surprised if it is, it’s yet another reason not to trust these people with all this private information. Many of the people at the top, the ones who are charged with carrying out the privacy policies, don’t know what the hell they are doing.

And lord knows, the congress doesn’t …

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