"Government "of the People" cannot flourish beneath a suffocating cloak of secrecy. And secrecy is often aimed, not at protecting us from enemies abroad, but at deceiving us about the dark machinations of our own government."
Sen. Richard H. Black, Colonel US Army (ret.); Associate, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
"Of course due process makes it harder for the government to do what it wants. That's the whole point " to make sure that the government is acting in accord with the law."
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the Berkeley School of Law