I think the lesson is that the people of this country can’t afford to let the President run the country by himself, … without the help of Congress, without the help of the public. … What these studies tell me is we must remember this is a self-governing country. We are the government. … We cannot let the officials of the Executive Branch determine for us what it is that the public needs to know about how well and how they are discharging their functions.
烟波钓徒 发表于 2014-6-3 12:33
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1,闯进Ellsberg的心理医生的几个“white house plumber”后来都因为水门事件被捕 ...
烟波钓徒 发表于 2014-6-3 12:33 . h# \& ]% u" C
补充几件有意识的后续:
1,闯进Ellsberg的心理医生的几个“white house plumber”后来都因为水门事件被捕 ...
南京老萝卜 发表于 2014-6-3 11:02 8 O3 I0 E8 g: D" N0 }' B9 h6 y9 [
地方法院判案在先,高级法院无论维持原判还是改判,都在后,当然地方法院没法推翻高院裁决。" Q0 _1 c5 B/ V5 U
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sitan 发表于 2014-6-3 13:30 G; Q4 K& {8 H6 y* V% [2 p \
像Ellsberg这样的英雄在中国混文科在学校里头肯定当教授了吧,老底子还有几篇paper呢,在美国一直是讲师 ...
Dracula 发表于 2014-6-3 12:38
下面是Hugo Black在New York Times Co. v. United States 的判决意见的节选。Hugo Black来于Alabama,担任 ...
南京老萝卜 发表于 2014-6-2 22:02 0 h5 P) t$ m% o" j' B
地方法院判案在先,高级法院无论维持原判还是改判,都在后,当然地方法院没法推翻高院裁决。! x! X8 R3 j( k% S
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海天 发表于 2014-6-3 22:03 r; d2 [* Q) `! E+ M( k" V
晕一个,
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前两天看到你写苏利文案, 当时心想五角大楼文件案也挺典型,还和水门能扯上点关系......刚 ...
sitan 发表于 2014-6-7 04:36 ! @' h+ e* Z! ^0 T/ X7 S
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据我在美国的文科朋友说,福柯的思想出发点很深,我们在谈这些所谓规训之类的东西的时 ...
I was struck by something you said in Vanity Fair, which was that every one of us has seen things that are wrong, that should be known, that should be exposed, and we have turned our eyes away because we were intimidated. I believe that's true of every human on earth. There are times when they bite their tongues or keep their mouths shut because to reveal it would lose a relationship, or a job, or a career. Then you said, but there comes a time when the level of wrongness or inhumanity is so great that you have to cross over that line.
I thought, that's Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning who did that. How many others? Most people never do reach that line. They never do reach a point where they decide to risk their own status, their relationships, their job. And many of them have been tested on things like the continuation of a wrongful war; hundreds of thousands of lives, 500,000 lives lost each year in the case of tobacco. And only two people spoke out. Look at GM. It's a only a handful, but it's striking how they covered it up. How many people at GM knew that lives were being lost? Who spoke out? Nobody, I don't think so. 7 j* ^" l6 `- [+ f
What I hope, Ed, is that you will inspire more people to take even significant risks ... there will always be risks. And the willingness to take that risk, for civilians, is very rare.
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As you may know, it was Bismarck of all people who said courage on the battlefield is very common in our country, Prussia at that point. But civil courage is another matter, it's very rare. Before Manning and Snowden I'd almost given up on it.1 u6 H2 i' P' Z4 p6 K6 @! @
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And Manning. He got a lot of attention, but he didn't get the effect in this country, except for getting our troops home from Iraq, that you did. Why? Because I think Manning was showing what we were doing to other people in the Third World. Others. Not us. And in my case, was the effect because of the millions of Vietnamese who were being killed wrongly? Every one of them was wrong. When I read the Pentagon Papers and realized for the first time that from the very beginning we were supporting a French colonial reconquest of a country, which I thought of us un-American, whether it was illegal internationally or not, I saw every death in Vietnam as being unjustified homicide. To me that was murder, mass murder, and I couldn't be part of that anymore. Well, the American people didn't respond, I'm sorry to say, on the whole, to the mass murder, but there were 58,000 Americans in the process of dying then, see. And in your case, Ed, it wasn't so much directly dying, but you exposed what was being done to us. And people are objecting to that.; J$ }1 L$ W; \
I think we have to have a different standard, and you show the possibility of it. Your colleagues in NSA, as you said, agreed with you, many of them, that this is wrong. But I have a mortgage, I have a marriage, I have children to send to college. And that was enough. Even though we're talking about this massive intrusion. It's a new world, basically, that people need to know about. So it shouldn't be only you. And I would hope that some of your colleagues, who I would suspect—from my experience, if you were in a room with your former colleagues now, I would expect them to leave that room. If you can tell me that a former colleague from NSA has in any way communicated with you to say you've done the right thing, in any way, I would guess there are zero like that, which was my experience at the Rand Corporation. You lose every friend you have who has a clearance. And that's all your friends.
But you're not made of sugar, as you've shown. I saw you say yesterday, "If I were in chains at Guantanamo, I could live with that." Well, that doesn't surprise me, Ed. That's the person I find you to be. It's a pretty unusual statement, isn't it? Well, let's make it a little less unusual. You went in the special forces and had your legs broken, didn't go over. I used my Marine training in Vietnam as a civilian. I'd been a Marine company commander in peacetime. And so I used that training in Vietnam. I saw combat. I walked with troops in combat. There you see courage, physical courage, every minute, every day. People doing the job, going to save their comrades. That kind of courage is marvelous. As a marine once said at Iwo Jima, uncommon courage was a common virtue. Okay, right. When you're doing it for the commander in chief, for the boss, with the applause of your country–usually you don't get the applause, most of it is anonymous, but you know they would approve you if they knew of it, and would hold you accountable if you didn't do it.; h4 v' K5 I6 w; O
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It shouldn't be that you are the extraordinary hero that we thank. It should be that we should ask the question of those other people, "What made you think that you could keep this secret for so long? Keep it totally secret, keep your mouth shut?"
A lot of blood has flowed because people bit their tongue and swallowed their whistles, and didn't speak out. And it's time I think that we not prosecute them, but tell them, "That is not the way to preserve a democracy."0 Z+ H& `( E$ w% V) N- u
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And I'll just end by saying, people ask, is he a patriot or a traitor? That drives me nuts, the very thought that people could regard you as a traitor. The ignorance of the media and the congresspeople and the other interviewers who raised that question offends me as an American, that they think that it can be traitorous to tell the truth to your fellow countrymen. Here's the standard I would like to see set: "Snowden was the one person in the fucking NSA who did what he absolutely should have done." How many people should've done what you did! I said this about Chelsea when that came out and I say it now. We all took the same oath to protect and defend the Constitution. There are people who violate it all the time. There are people who are against it, like Cheney and some others. But when it comes to upholding that oath, no one in the U.S. military services including the commander in chief has fulfilled her oath to defend and support the Constitution like Chelsea Manning.
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And no one in the U.S. executive branch, or in any branch of government, has fulfilled the oath to uphold and protect the Constitution as well as you, so thank you.
sitan 发表于 2014-6-3 13:49 3 ?: `6 r$ f0 \ g+ R; k! x
美国司法部长在这个含义上相当于中国最高检察长,中国的最高检也管不了地方法院。当然中国的最高党政当局 ...
南京老萝卜 发表于 2014-6-3 08:39 / [" b. U- q4 O6 z5 R$ g3 p) S
很久以前看过一篇文章,丁林写的,五角大楼泄密案的报道。它的内容比较长。说实话,美国的权力制衡确实运行 ...
老兵帅客 发表于 2014-8-9 03:50 7 x$ n* a' e) x1 [
"最高法院法官Hugo Black在言论自由问题上是个绝对主义者。对他来说,既然第一宪法修正案说政府不能制订任 ...
老兵帅客 发表于 2014-8-9 03:50 ; ?2 \5 m, M2 U* r
"最高法院法官Hugo Black在言论自由问题上是个绝对主义者。对他来说,既然第一宪法修正案说政府不能制订任 ...
Dracula 发表于 2014-8-9 09:18 1 B! Q1 q& z, x& s0 g
照你的逻辑,美国总统,乃至各部部长对每个具体的问题也几乎都不是专家,那么是不是也应该完全成为橡皮图 ...
老兵帅客 发表于 2014-8-10 01:20 K; h; d# V* W Q8 \7 t
不对,政府内支持政客们工作的专家可是不少,而最高法院却没有,这就是我的意思,你没有专家支持你做出判 ...
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