So it was a bunch of Philly anti-war protesters who stole the FBI documents that proved Hoover was using the FBI to spy on dissidents. This was the event that motivated the Church committee hearings, and the establishment of the FISA court to provide intelligence oversight. Well, we see how well that’s working now.
Some things never change. The people who release the proof that our government is breaking the law are always the ones treated as the criminals — not the ones who betrayed the public trust.
The Patriot Act is unconstitutional. The Patriot Act authorizes the NSA to spy on every American, included our elected officials, by collecting and storing metadata. In Utah. What the NSA is doing is unconstitutional. Edward Snowden recognized that. Do you suppose that Bush’s right wing Supreme Court will rule in favor of ‘our’ constitutional rights and against the NSA and the Patriot Act? What ex-Secretary of State voted “yes’ to pass the Patriot Act?
The Patriot Act is unconstitutional. The Patriot Act authorizes the NSA to spy on every American, including our elected officials, by collecting and storing metadata. In Utah. What the NSA is doing is unconstitutional. Edward Snowden recognized that. Do you suppose that Bush’s right wing Supreme Court will rule in favor of ‘our’ constitutional rights and against the NSA and the Patriot Act? What ex-Secretary of State voted “yes’ to pass the Patriot Act?
You can say that again, Im.
When I was in college, there was a guy who plagiarized his final-year design project from something that had been nationally published. When his classmates turned him in, the relevant faculty held a meeting to berate them for turning him in, and then proceeded to hand out retaliatory grades to the whistle-blowers. They wouldn’t discuss the plagiarism itself, however.