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treestar

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13. Exactly!

Reply to geek tragedy (Reply #12)

Wed Apr 24, 2013, 10:34 AM

Apr 2013

I've been listening/watching MSNBC a lot more since the bombing and I am tired of hearing about the FBI "dropping the ball" - as if the government can have a wiretap up the ass of everyone they get any information on, and as if the government was supposed to think there was something super suspicious about someone traveling to a country their family is from.

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