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Hoyer hails FISA bill as "a significant victory for the Democratic Party"

The House majority leader argues that giving the GOP what it wanted on eavesdropping removed it as an election issue. That's the same mentality that led Democrats to authorize the war in 2002.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Tuesday, June 24, 2008 07:24 AM

    Hume's Ghost had a post up

    That's totally off the subject

    except that it isn't.

    http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-nature-engineers-suicidal-rat.html

    I think the phrase "Engineering a suicidal rat" is approriate to this situation on multiple levels!

    —Paul Dirks Read Paul Dirks's other letters

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