Who Watches the Watchmen?

 

Our investigatory agencies should function like the First Amendment: protecting both free speech we admire and unpopular speech that most prefer not to hear.

Who Watches the Watchmen?

 One symptom of a society in crisis is the unreliability or even corruption of its own auditors.

After all, when the watchmen have lost moral authority to watch, who can be believed or trusted? Or, as the Roman satirist Juvenal famously put it, “Who will guard the guardians?”