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NSA Spying: 'If We Tell You, We'll Have to Kill You'

Reblogged from Bill Totten's Weblog:

by Tom Burghardt

Antifascist Calling (July 13 2012)

When Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) in 2008, a privacy-killing law that gutted First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment protections for Americans while granting immunity to giant telecoms that assisted the National Security Agency's (NSA) warrantless wiretapping programs, we were assured that the government "does not spy" on our communications.

Yet scarcely a year after FAA was signed into law by President Bush, …

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