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Power Always Has To Be Kept In Check; Power Exercised In Secret, Especially Under The Cloak Of National Security, Is Doubly Dangerous.
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret,
especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
-- William Proxmire
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