The company we keep

What kind of monsters would spy on their own citizens without warrants even when the law requires warrants, and then not even punish those who broke the law? Russian Communist KGB thugs -- that's who would do such a horrible thing, our State Department complained in 2006. Note, too -- as our Congress attempts to legalize warrantless eavesdropping here -- that our State Department complained about Russia's surveillance abuses even though the law there ... Full Story »

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece highlights some our current US hypocrisy by citing State Department criticism of Russia for warrantless wiretapping even though the practice has been employed in the US and Congress is currently in the process of further legalizing it. While the article is opinion, it employs direct quotations from government critcism of others to make its point.

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