Letters to the Editor
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Interesting about Western Union
For once, it's just as I remember it -- the uproar was over telegram communications originating in or ending in the U.S. -- i.e. communications between a U.S. person and a foreign one. This is just what these jerks have been trying to legalize, "If bin Laden is talking to someone in the U.S. I want to know who..."
Amazing that no one in Congress that was around for the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a.k.a. The Church Committee seems to remember this and say something. Some time, Glenn, you'll have to do a piece on all the press "pundits" who keep saying things like "worst since Nixon" or "most egregious power grab since Nixon". It should be obvious, just from this one example, let alone the laundry list of other offenses, that this Administration's lawlessness left Nixon in the dust a long, long time ago.
[Warning about joining either the EFF or the ACLU: you are likely to be impressed enough by the worth-it-ness to end up giving them money throughout the year.]