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  "It's best solved by using guiding principles, not ... rigged structure or rules that pre-determine where you're trying to get to," he said. "Security and privacy are not dichotomous rivals to be traded one for another in a zero-sum game; they are dual objectives, each to be maximized within certain constraints."

  I agree with the statement 100%; however, the implementation of the resulting system is based on an assumption that the government can be trusted. The government has proven time and time again that it cannot be trusted! They drop radiation over the midwest in the 1950's to study the effects and never told us, they break into the other party's offices and lie about it for years, congressional members steal from the post office, then there is pork for the pigs, they cannot pass a budget for the world's largest economy and leader of the free world, they talk about free trade and inpose tariffs, they subsidize farmers to the extreme to preserve a way of life for those that choose to farm, they create an energy department that cannot develop an alternative for oil, they allow the infrastructure of the country to decline, they do not focus on foreign policy, they do nothing productive for their lives other than sit in Congress or the administration.

  GovExec.com reader Posted December 3, 2003 7:47 AM