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# Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/pentagon-expanding-its-domestic-surveillance-activity/
- Published: 2005-11-29T11:50:55.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:33:02.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: Asides

Seems to me that if the government is going to [continue to increase its ability to collect all kinds of information about its citizenry](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/26/AR2005112600857.html?ref=chrismessina.me) (in ways unknown to those citizens), then the citizenry ought demand a more open source government.

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**[Shahrooz Bhopti](http://www.nextwavenetwork.com/?ref=chrismessina.me)** · 2005-11-30 14:16:50

I agree wholeheartedly! I guess i can do my part by planning a social network around the topic. It'll take some time for governments around the world to "open" up and surely solve many societal issues in the process.