Police State

Here's a timely example of how government redefines words - which it also does to statistics - mislead people.

"The bureaucrat protects himself through specialized non-transparent meanings of words and terms. Senator Wyden last year asked the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper Jr., what he thought was a straightforward question: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" Clapper replied "No, sir ... not wittingly."
Clapper relied on a definition of "collect" found in, for example, a 1982 DOD handbook. "Data acquired by electronic means is 'collected' only when it has been processed into intelligible form.""

Orwell would be proud.

Expert journalist praised for connecting the NSA dots. If he's an expert and a journalist, how come his stories never see the light of day?