On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:36 AM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:54:59 CST, Dan White said: >> My hope is that whatever laws we end up with are ultimately based around >> traditional warrant based prosecution rather than 'give us all your logs on >> the first of every month'. > > Three words: National Security Letters. > > Two more words: Warrantless wiretaps. > > Combine that with an officially stated position by the Bush administration > that even the FISA court fig leaf warrants are too burdensome (and not > officiallyrepudiated by the Obama administration as far as I know), and the > known abuse of NSL's and other surveillance methods, I don't hold out > much hope for laws based on "traditional warrant based prosecution" unless > we see a sudden sea change in DC. My thoughts exactly. The best I can tell, my own government is a greater threat to me that Bin Laden and friends.
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