Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism

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Bruce Schneier. "Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism." schneier.com, July 2013. Archived at perma.cc/QB2C-5RCE

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Mission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism - Schneier on Security

One of the assurances I keep hearing about the U.S. government’s spying on American citizens is that it’s only used in cases of terrorism. Terrorism is, of course, an extraordinary crime, and its horrific nature is supposed to justify permitting all sorts of excesses to prevent it. But there’s a problem with this line of reasoning: mission creep. The definitions of “terrorism” and “wea…

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