It’s hardly my nature to slough off threats to the First Amendment or general government snooping—I’ve been a practicing journalist since 1975, and have doled out a frightening sum over the years for libel insurance—but I got a chuckle last weekend while reading Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column “'A Nation of Sullen Paranoids.'” Like hundreds of other writers who are more concerned about citizen privacy than Ben Affleck landing a Batman role or whatever trouble Miley Cyrus is up to, Noonan is agog about the National Security Agency “controversy,” and its implications for the future of this country. She writes: “If you believe the information will never be used wrongly or recklessly, you are touchingly innocent.”
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