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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

JAMES CARROLL IS SEVENTY AND ONE

JAMES CARROLL 
b. January 22, 1943 


AIR FORCE BRAT 
1960 Graduate 
General H. H. Arnold High School 
Wiesbaden, West Germany 

also 

WRITER 
Fiction and Non-Fiction 

and 
former PRIEST 


James Carroll was in the news recently with a New Yorker profile of Pope Francis ("Who Am I to Judge?"). He also has a column in the Boston Globe ("Sounding the Alarm, Then and Now") on the recently disclosed story of eight anti-war protestors who revealed some of the excesses of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, by means of the burglary of an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, back in March 1971. Edward Snowden is the obvious "Now" to the Media burglary eight's "Then." Carroll is alarmed: "While government overreach is partly to blame for privacy-destroying intrusions into the communications of average citizens, so are unbridled new technologies to which citizens have willingly made themselves hostage." 

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