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We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of totalitarian regimes. We have seen a consistent pattern in which programs initiated with limited goals, such as preventing criminal violence or identifying foreign spies, were expanded to what witnesses characterized as "vacuum cleaners", sweeping in information about lawful activities of American citizens. The tendency of intelligence activities to expand beyond their initial scope is a theme which runs through every aspect of our investigative findings. Intelligence collection programs naturally generate ever-increasing demands for new data. And once intelligence has been collected, there are strong pressures to use it against the target.


Church Committee


#data #national-security #predictions #prescience #secrecy

I knew by the signs it would be a hard winter. The hollies bore a heavy crop of berries and birds stripped them bare. Crows quarreled in reaped fields and owls cried in the mountains, mournful as widows. Fur and moss grew thicker than usual. Cold rains came, driven sideways through the trees by north winds, and snows followed.


Sarah Micklem


#folklore #nature #predictions #weather #winter

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.


Freeman Dyson


#climate #concerning #highly #i #i am

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?


Nigel Farage


#any #become #cold #come #established

While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.


Ron Kind


#america #clearly #commercial #corps #dam

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.


Paul Wellstone


#dare #hope #imagine #observations #politics

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.


M. H. Abrams


#decades #false #having #learn #lived

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.


David Plouffe


#ceased #how #i #making #out

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.


Nate Silver


#estimates #get #our #predictions #right

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?


Thomas Sowell


#billions #country #even #forecast #foundation