Policy: National Security  Scandals at NSA and IRS are equally
alarming  By | Gene Healy,Columnists,President,Homeland
Security,Secret Service,CIA,Big Government,National
Security,IRS,NSA,Edward Snowden,Analysis  If you're outraged by
the Internal Revenue Service's invasive questioning and
harassment of Tea Party groups, why wouldn't you be worried
about the National Security Agency surreptitiously collecting
bulk internet, email and phone data on millions of Americans?
Aren't both episodes examples of a government that's out of
control?  Not so fast, say some on the right. The NSA activity
is less alarming, Professor Richard Epstein argued recently,
because, among other things, "the military community" of which
the agency is a part, "internalizes the norms against abuse in
ways in which other government agencies do not."  And Jed Babbin
insists in the American Spectator that "the NSA Isn't the IRS,"
and indeed the intelligence community is "a whole lot more
trustworthy than most of the rest of our government