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Campaign against warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty is expanding

Three targets are chosen who are key enablers of the corrupt bill Congress is attempting to pass.
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  • Wednesday, June 18, 2008 03:56 PM

    Obama

    I wish I'd read the NYT editorial before I responded to the Obama email this afternoon. But what the NYT said is more or less what I told him. Decisions about amnesty are about to be made in Congress that will be irreversible. He needs to take a leadership role on this issue. Amnesty can be granted retroactivly. Liability can not.

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