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If he knows the information, but has failed to talk about it, then he has failed as a reporter. As a legal expert and reporter, it is his job to elevate the discussion. If he is not ignorant, then he was lazy, and now he has spread ignorance to his reader base.

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I feel like the op-ed is aiming to "spread the knowledge" more than it is trying to dig deep into the legal issues surrounding NSA's activities. I recall reading polls after the Snowden leak showing how a fair amount of the US public did not fully understand what was happening. It seems like this is Barnett's initial attempt at speaking out in some official form and creating some dialogue around this issue.

So what makes it a decent article for hn? Are there really a bunch of folks around here who haven't noticed this controversy yet?

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