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But it took a mild mannered clerk in Lichtenstein to unravel the criminal attempt by 18,000 Americans to avoid paying $100 million in taxes. Does anyone know why the NSA didn't uncover that one? or should we just schedule it for things to investigate.
In April, Michael Chertoff announced that the government will turn the most advanced spy satellites in its arsenal on American citizens, and the announcement brought barely a whisper from the media. So where is the oversight? Americans should know more about their government than government know about its citizens.
Growing government intrusiveness must be balanced by increased citizen control over the government. Whatever trade off to increased government power must be tempered by citizen checks and balances.
Americans better get it right this time, we can't afford to be complacent any longer about this.
