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Funny Names
It seems significant to me, and part of the larger problem, that even in an expose, the newspaper blandly states, "....without warrants ordinarily required for such searches." Ordinarily? Would a newspaper write, "without a license ordinarily required to drive a car?" Of course not. That's the kind of crime little people commit, and has no ifs, ands, buts, or "ordinarily's."
It seems that government lawlessness has become so ingrained in our culture that even investigative reporters proceed on Nixon's famous principle, novel at the time but no more, that, "if the President does it, is not illegal."
Just a tad out of the ordinary.