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To Listen? Or Not to Listen? That Is the Question.
Does simply listening to someone speak necessarily mean you support them? This is a question some CMC students, including myself, confronted on Wednesday, February 5th, when the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Brennan, came to campus. He met with small groups of students in two intimate sessions run by the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies (one of which I attended), and then spoke at an off-campus “Ath on the Road” event partnered with Res Publica, a CMC alumni society.
As I lined up to board the bus that would take me to Brennan’s off-campus talk, I was handed a piece of paper. I thanked the student who gave me the paper, thinking that she was affiliated with the event and was handing me an informative flyer. However, as I looked down at the leaflet in my hands and read the words “war criminal” in large red letters, I quickly realized that was not the case. I soon came to understand that she was one of two students from Pomona College who were protesting and attempting to encourage those who had signed up to boycott the event.
As we got on the bus, the two students cited statistics about Brennan’s history in the CIA, such as the 563 drone strikes Brennan approved during the Obama Administration, purportedly killing over 2000 civilians. The students said it would “mean so much to the families of the people Brennan killed” if we didn’t attend the event. One of the students even complimented my friend’s outfit, noting that Brennan “[did not deserve to have her dress up for him and support him.]” The two students claimed that we couldn’t possibly gain any value from what Brennan had to say. To my knowledge, the valiant attempts of the Pomona students were unsuccessful, and every student in line for the bus boarded.
https://cmcforum.com/articles/2020/2/23/to-listen-or-not-to-listen-that-is-the-question
National Security Wiretap System Was Long Plagued by Risk of Errors and Omissions
The F.B.I.’s intelligence wiretap powers are at a crossroads after a damning report about the surveillance of a former Trump adviser. And the flaws may be systemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-fbi.html
https://archive.is/tENVG