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libodem

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1. I think she has a valid POV

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 04:07 PM

Nov 2012

Right to privacy was removed with the Patriot act. All telecom and computer info is collected with zero probable cause. If you receive an NSA letter you can't even tell a lawyer. This admin might not be brutal with it but I feel if the pubs get ahold of it again it will be like Hoover at the FBI, holding dirt on everyone and everything, all the time, just because they can.

So much room for abuse of human and civil rights.

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Naomi Wolf thinks the Petraeus story is about snooping by the national security state [View all] struggle4progress Nov 2012 OP

I think she has a valid POV libodem Nov 2012 #1

I suspect she's blowing smoke, like so many others. Chaffetz (R-Utah) insists a FISA warrant would struggle4progress Nov 2012 #4

Was she the "advisor" who told Gore to wear brown? elfin Nov 2012 #2

I certainly hope you won't sense Nov 2012 #3

She might have a point about privacy in general, but it doesn't work with Petraeus stevenleser Nov 2012 #5