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In reply to the discussion: Obama’s “Dirty Wars” — and a soiled presidency [View all]PSPS
(13,705 posts)Remember how bush would take any bill passed and simply, by the magic of a "signing statement," declare the bill would amount to whatever suited him and his cabal? With Obama, it has become even more grotesque. Not only do we now have "secret laws," we also have "secret interpretations of the secret laws" which is another way of saying "secret signing statements."
And how do you kill this surveillance monster? With its permanent digital dossiers of everyone's email, web travels, phone calls and every other facet of what should be our private lives available for perusal and misuse with a few keystrokes, it is invincible. Nobody could touch J. Edgar Hoover during his 37-year tenure at the FBI because he kept dossiers. What we're dealing with here is much, much worse.
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