<blockquote>'The freer people are to blow the whistle on wrongdoing, the more we can assume that when no whistle is blown, things aren't so bad. The more the government cracks down on whistleblowers, the more likely it is that they've got something to hide.'
- Glenn Harlan Reynolds,
Don't fear the leaker, July 1, 2013</blockquote>
'..when it comes to brazen law-breaking, as long as you are personally connected to the president, you get protection rather than the prosecution you deserve.'<blockquote>'The importance of such a perjury prosecution, of course, should not be lost on our constitutional law professor-turned-president.
Out of all people, he has to understand that equal protection under the law means treating Clapper (and Alexander, who also
lied to Congress) exactly the
same way his administration treated pitcher Roger Clemens. Otherwise, the message from the government would be that lying to Congress about baseball is more of a felony than lying to Congress about Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights. Such a message would declare that when it comes to brazen law-breaking, as long as you are personally connected to the president, you get protection rather than the prosecution you deserve.'
- David Sirota,
James Clapper is still lying to America, July 1, 2013</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
Property rights - Civil Liberties - The Criminal N.S.A. (The New York Times)</blockquote>