James A. Baker, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s newly appointed general counsel, speaks about national security and government surveillance at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, as reported in Newsweek:
When James A. Baker, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s newly appointed general counsel, met for dinner with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt a couple of months ago, the topic of national security and government surveillance came up. “He was deeply, deeply, deeply frustrated with the U.S. government, with what it’s willing to talk about and what it’s not willing to talk about” in terms of how it spies on Americans, Baker recalls.
He told this anecdote in late April at a cybersecurity conference in New York at Fordham Law’s Center on National Security before arriving at his main point: “Government surveillance is not that bad.” Schmidt’s well-publicized response? “Encrypt everything.”
Read the full article in Newsweek here.