Today, President Obama announced some reforms to the NSA phone surveillance program: View the original NPR article here. Was Ike's 1961 farewell speech warning us against exactly what America has become?
Consider his words, spoken 50 years ago: "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
