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Originally Posted by kane
The way I understand it he broke the law. I guess, because of the patriot act, they can spy on people without a warrent but then they have to go back, after the fact and still get that warrent. The idea is that if they get info on a terrorist action they can spy right now and not wait a day or longer to get the warrent. Once they are done they have to go to a judge and get the warrent and make it retroactive. And in many of the cases they have had, they have not bothered to go back and get the warrents they are supposed to get whice makes it illegal.
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That's scary. The bottom line is for the first time in U.S. history the Executive Branch has been granted unprecedented powers of domestic intervention regarding privacy. Sure, if all apples were sweet the justification is fighting terrorism, but it's the industrialists and elite that fostered that terrorism in the first place by invading the middle east and cutting it up and propping up these dictators. Now when their asses are on fire they wanna fart smoke the other way?
You KNOW these invasive actions were, are, and will be abused. Bush may well be in a situation where's he's up against the wall. He knows full well how corrupted the infrastructure of politics and global industry have become but he's got no where to go but to follow through on 'his' agendas or he'll be the target of the people who are supposed to be supporting him.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
Gore is bitching about it but he forgot that it was the Clinton Administration that allowed the failed Eschelon email snooping program.