Buckley program hosts former NSA director

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Yale News:

Jed Finley

Monday, November 17, 2014

 

On Friday, the William F. Buckley Jr. Program hosted its fourth annual conference honoring the 50th anniversary of James Burnham’s book “Suicide of the West” — which argues that the spread of liberalism is causing the downfall of Western societies.

 

The Buckley Program held three panels that afternoon, followed by a gala featuring former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden that drew roughly 200 people. In his keynote speech, Hayden said that the debate surrounding the NSA’s surveillance is not an argument between positions of right and wrong. It is a balancing act of fundamental American values, he said.

 

“When these debates happen in our society, there is a default option where we talk about these things in terms of the forces of light and the forces of darkness,” Hayden said. “What we are debating here in the United States is not good versus evil — it’s good versus good. We are attempting to balance two things that are virtues: our liberty and our security.”

 

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H/T Power Line

 

Buckley Program At Yale

 

 

 

My question to Gen. Hayden is, Why is that slimy little SOB Edward Snowden still among the living? Give him 2 behind the ear!

 

 

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