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BlueStreak

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1. The sad thing is that it was all very predictable.

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2013, 11:02 AM

Dec 2013

This stuff has been going on for 100 years. Some of the jargon (e.g. FISA Court) has changed, but it is basically the same stuff J. Edgar Hoover was doing 70 years earlier.

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The sad thing is that it was all very predictable. BlueStreak Dec 2013 #1

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Awful... Quantess Dec 2013 #13

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Test !!! WillyT Dec 2013 #14