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marmar

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Thu May 2, 2013, 10:17 AM May 2013

Big Bro Broken: Lavish surveillance shattered by Boston bombings


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Published on May 2, 2013

Many US government officials are calling for tougher national security measures, in the wake of the deadly Boston bombings. But more than a decade of multi-billion-dollar surveillance, at the expense of civil liberties, has failed to prevent terror at home. Experts say Washington's security strategy has already cost far more than it's worth.


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Big Bro Broken: Lavish surveillance shattered by Boston bombings (Original Post) marmar May 2013 OP
I'm willing to bet that many pockets have been lined with the $700Bn snappyturtle May 2013 #1
But perhaps 2naSalit May 2013 #2
Probably members of the 1%. imho snappyturtle May 2013 #3
Indeed... 2naSalit May 2013 #4
I should have just said it outright to begin with, huh? Ha. nt snappyturtle May 2013 #5

snappyturtle

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1. I'm willing to bet that many pockets have been lined with the $700Bn
Thu May 2, 2013, 10:35 AM
May 2013

spent on making us safer.

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