...that Madison would regard Woolsey as far worse than the worst of George III's ministers. Do we not submit in America today to usurpations of our personal liberties on a scale undreamt of by the despots of that distant century? Regarding "sacred honor," the notion that Madison would be unable to distinguish between fidelity to the principles of the Constitution and the legalese of security boilerplate extorted by an instrument of naked tyranny, as he would certainly have regarded the NSA—well, it is to laugh. I'm a little disappointed,
cordially,