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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