- "Is privacy a right? It's certainly not a constitutional right. It's an individual right that has to be balanced with concern for the common good." Foresight from the Godfather of the NSA surveillance system/Total Information Awareness, Adm. John Poindexter in a 2004 Wired interview. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/poindexter.html 5 comments politics