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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Domestic-Spying.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
or (in case you don't have the NYT password--this isn't the have to subscribe one that you have to have to go to the op-ed page)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051106Z.shtml
QuoteThe government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter.
but
QuoteJustice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the terrorist surveillance program "has been subject to extensive oversight both in the executive branch and in Congress from the time of its inception."
and
QuoteSeparately, the Justice Department sought last month to dismiss a federal lawsuit accusing the telephone company AT&T of colluding with the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
The servers were required by law two years ago, even the secure phone systems had to build ways for "CALEA" law enforcement, of course it was for those big bad drug pushers.......
Of course it was. We couldn't possibly be those, so why should we object.
there's also the new Mark Fiore.
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/decider.html
They can feel free to snoop in the bottom of my used underwear. >:( I've got no secrets from them. :o
and a Walt Handelsman cartoon someone sent me this morning.
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Those damn bad guys. >:( I'm stopping right there. Tongue just went through my cheek. :-/