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Apparently, “The World Act is not Enough“
Absurd.

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Washington Post today:

The FBI reported more than 100 possible violations to an intelligence oversight board over the past two years, including cases in which agents tapped the wrong telephone, intercepted the wrong e-mails or continued to listen to conversations after a warrant had expired, according to a report issued yesterday.
In one case, the FBI obtained […]

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Earlier today, I was talking with a fellow congress-watcher, and we were musing about what would become of the PATRIOT act later today- after the House passed a 1 month extension. I said to my friend something along the lines of “Tonight the PATRIOT will go back to the Senate, but I dunno how many […]

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Quickie- What just happened?
After McClellen said Bush would veto a short PATRIOT 3 month extension, and after the Senate approved a 6 month extension, which the President apparently liked- the House comes in, led by Republicans to pass a 1 month extension. Will Bush veto? What the hell is even going on in Washington today?

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It hasn’t been entirely struck down yet- but it’s getting closer and closer. Not the PATRIOT, but the First Amendment. The right to write and read whatever you like is heading closer and closer to extinction it seems, as evidenced by the latest case of sheer unreasonable governmental abuse of the PATRIOT ACT (which as […]

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