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June 27, 2013 10:23 pm PDT
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How realistic are the fears of hawkishpresidents?
Last night at dinner with a couple of friends who are civil liberties lawyers, I asked why they thought Obama had changed his tune on surveillance; from campaigning for limited, closely overseen, transparent surveillance regimes to establishing a secretive, overarching, totalizing surveillance system that necessitates prosecuting more whistleblowers than all the other presidents in American history, combined.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/qOtyZRGUS64/story01.htm
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