It's a very delicate kabuki dance that we do between privacy and security, and I think to some greater or lesser extent you need to plug into the fact that your individual privacy might damage the majority's safety.
Quotes about kabuki (4 Quotes)
We're rolling the dice with you, judge, ... because you won't share your views with us. You've told me nothing in this Kabuki dance. The public has a right to know what you think.
We are rolling the dice with you, judge, ... It's kind of interesting, this Kabuki dance we have in these hearings here, as if the public doesn't have a right to know what you think about fundamental issues facing them.
I would say we are going through the Kabuki that one would anticipate and it will go one over the next several months which the objective is to get Iran to freeze its nuclear research and any future nuclear enrichment and to find some package of carrots and sticks that will be sufficient to lead them to accept that as the best outcome. I think that is unlikely to succeed but it is the best strategy to be following.