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In reply to the discussion: What If Richard Nixon Had Had Your E-Mail Password? [View all]ConservativeDemocrat
(2,720 posts)You know as well as I do that we have FISA courts whose job it is to oversee that all subpoenas comply with the law. That law already states that without probable cause, conversations between Americans cannot be examined. There is absolutely no evidence that this law has been broken.
And many of your other points are pure hyperbole. 320 million Americans are not being spied on. As of last year there were less than 2000 FISA warrants issued in the U.S., which in a nation of this size is less than 1 in 160,000 people. And that assumes they're distributed evenly, when clearly they're focused on people who associate with foreigners who are violent extremists.
I do agree that America is not North Korea, Maoist China, or East Germany. Such comparisons are overwrought and unwarranted.
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