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Before June 2013, civil society and much of Congress were largely in the dark about the extent of the surveillance activities of the National Security Agency and the circumlocutions of statute undertaken by the White House and the Department of Justice. After the releases by Edward Snowden to specific journalists, the mendacity of Intelligence Community lawyers and leaders, the evasions of the law and manipulation of the FISA Court by the White House working with the Justice Department, and the scope of the violations of the Fourth Amendment protections of U.S. Persons (USPs) became increasingly apparent.2 This article reviews the changes that were initiated in the Executive Branch (and to a lesser extent in the Legislative Branch), the role civil society played in pushing and utilizing greater transparency, and what the changes mean for government accountability to the public.

Much of French feminist theory is structured by its readings of Jacques Lacan & Jacques Derrida & the notions of the "feminine" developed by these two male therapists. For Lacan & Derrida, the feminine is characterized by its impossibility of representation. Luce Irigaray's post-Lacanian rereadings of the masters of Western philosophy are considered here (eg, see This Sex Which Is Not One, Porter, C. [Tr], Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Press, 1985). Irigaray attempts to develop a space for the thinking/speaking/writing of the feminine, for the representation of the female sex -- without a simple reversal of values or hegemony & without seeking to impose a unitary meaning on the feminine. 11 References. HA