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Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abuses

Time publishes an article that has more demonstrable factual falsehoods than it has paragraphs.

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  • Monday, March 17, 2008 07:41 AM

    Google "CISPES" for example of spying abuses under Reagan

    Hey Glenn,

    I suggest you do some reading into the FBI's surveillance operations against the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador in the 1980s:

    www.southendpress.org/2004/items/Breakins

    www.publiceye.org/huntred/Hunt_For_Red_Menace-12.html

    It's very similar to what could possibly be going on today.

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