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Re: Spying Law Challenged

adidas originals — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:21:02 -0000

Thanks for this interesting post,i like it.

Re: Spying Law Challenged

amiblue — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:54:05 -0000

We can be fairly confident that a majority of the supremes will not see it the way the ACLU sees it. That is why it never should have been enacted in the first place.

Re: Spying Law Challenged

lvdragonlady — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:37:43 -0000

This is what Barack was talking about, when he said that he would let the courts decide on this.

It makes sense to me now, because I was very upset that he chose to vote for it.

Re: Spying Law Challenged

schnick — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:28:34 -0000

Stories that I imagine would have been much harder to write without a reasonable expectation of private international phone communication:

the CIA black prison story

the financial records data mining story

Anyone who thinks those stories being published is not in the public interest is not paying attention.

I am not sure that this law is not a de facto first amendment violation as well of freedom of the press.

In the words of a "great American": "Trust, but verify."