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Today the Washington
Post gives us the breakdown on the results of Bush's illegal
wiretap program. 5000 Americans
were spied upon; 10 of them were sufficiently suspicious to merit
further investigation. One in five hundred. But according to the
article, the conventional legal standard is that one in two wiretaps
need to bear fruit to meet the requirement of probable cause.
Now it's
clear why the Bush Administration knowingly violated the law; they couldn't meet
its requirements. It's good to be the king.
I know we're all suffering outrage fatigue here, but this extension of executive power is a serious threat to orderly US government. It has to be stopped. I just got a letter from the ACLU saying they're raising $1,000,000 to work a ninety day ad campaign on the wiretap issue and the Patriot Act. The ACLU is one of the few effective organizations acting here, but they need money. |
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