The watchers
And in news related to my prior post, Homeland Security's Chertoff defends the government's plans to snoop ever more closely on the personal communications of its citizens. He says that increased intelligence gathering and sharing doesn't equal less privacy.
As we have broadened information sharing, we have made sure that there are strict rules in effect...that prevent people from misusing that information or putting it out improperly [...] That's built into the DNA of this and all of our intelligence-sharing capabilities.
That's right... unrestrained and highly secret intelligence gathering programs by their very nature are respectful of citizen privacy. The same government that has accidental data breaches every other day is totally capable of respecting sensitive personal information.
And while we're at it let's throw in a few other nuggets from the Ministry of Truth: War is peace. Freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.