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Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:00 AM

What were the pre-2005 "other intelligence activities"?

We know the administration was spying on us for years in ways even more illegal than in the Terrorist Surveillance Program. Why don't we know what it was doing?
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Wednesday, July 25, 2007 09:03 AM

    Multiple choice

    Pick one or more of the following:

    1) The Democrats don't want to appear "soft on terror".

    2) Like most politicians, they are lazy, and would prefer that Bush be allowed to go away after a year and a half so they can help their party win big in 2008.

    3) What I believe to be the case: some of them secretly approve of unchecked power, but simply disapprove of a Republican wielding it. They are therefore uninterested in actual investigations that would unearth and limit such power.

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