| |  | | | |  | TWO GREAT CENTERS OF UNACCOUNTABLE POWER IN THE U.S. Where major decisions are made in secret and unchecked by democratic oversight |  | | June 17, 2013 |  | Opinion By Robert Reich
(NATIONAL) -- There are two great centers of unaccountable power in the American political-economic system today — places where decisions that significantly affect large numbers of Americans are made in secret, and are unchecked either by effective democratic oversight or by market competition.
One goes by the name of the “intelligence community” and its epicenter is the National Security Agency within the Defense Department. If we trusted that it reasonably balanced its snooping on Americans with our nation’s security needs, and that our elected representatives effectively oversaw that balance, there would be little cause for concern |
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