CIA Deputy Director: Privacy means the Government handles your private information responsibly

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/11/terrorist.surveillance.ap/index.html
This is horrible and absurd:
"Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information."

Coupled with its behavior elsewhere, the Bush adminstration has essentially said that the government has an unlimited right to keep its own secrets and an unlimited right to intrude on the secrets of every individual. This is a highly irresponsible point of view, and a prime reason for intervention by other branches of government in executive affairs.