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Another day in paradise

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Here’s what we needed to know about the NSA wiretapping.
1. How it works.
2. How the telcos will try to get away with it.
3. Why they’ll fail.
Thanks to MeFi and DKos for the links.

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Worse than Nixon?

Sunday, April 2, 2006

Anonymous Liberal has a nice wrap-up of the relative strength of the NSA’s wiretapping program as compared with Nixon’s wiretapping efforts. The conclusion: Nixon had a better case than Bush, and still lost. All the arguments for executive authority were basically demolished when Congress instituted the FISA court to oversee domestic wiretapping warrants. I [...]

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