Andrew Sullivan provides a sort of alarmist take on modern communication.
Supposedly, President Bush stopped using email the minute he was voted into office:
Private correspondence form [sic? some sort of political communication fu?] politicians is now restricted to verbal, face-to-face communication in secure locations with a tiny cadre of loyal apparatchiks. And people wonder why this White House is so secretive. Have they considered that there is no longer any viable alternative?
True, email leaves a problematic paper trail. But then so does, you know, actual paper.
Our political privacy situation has not changed significantly since the advent of electronic recording and copying. Nixon was bitten by illusive privacy long before computers integrated with our correspondence.
Perhaps a true explanation for all the Bush White House secrecy is all the Bush White House lies. Fewer lies need fewer secrets.
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