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The Bush/Cheney Administration has spent the last 6+ years building an
organizational, legal, and technical infrastructure for Executive
Branch power, including anything from wiretap infrastructures to the
Patriot Act to stuffing the courts and Justice Department with pro-
executive-power people,
and getting states, banks, credit companies, airlines, etc. to do
massive data collection. And it's not like it started with them - the
FBI wiretap enthusiasts like Louis Freeh, the NSA anti-public-crypto
people, the Echelon project, etc. all date to the Clinton or GHWBush/
Reagan administrations or earlier.

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It's going to take a *long* time to tear down that stuff and turn this
back into America again, and most of that won't happen unless we
replace the current Executive Branch with one that's actually
committed to doing it. Most of the major candidates aren't talking
like that - certainly Hillary and Rudy and John Edwards and McCain and
Romney don't have a history of wanting to do that, and you're pretty
much down to Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul before you'd get to anybody
who'd talk about that kind of concept as a campaign strategy. Perhaps
if the Democrats not only win the White House but also increase their
control of the Senate and House they'll have some willingness to do
that after a couple of years.


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For now, though, Homeland Security Anonymous Spokescritters report
that Enhanced Terrorist Surveillance Program has been reporting
increased frequency of terrorist chatter saying "Booga Booga", so if
you're even suggesting that we decrease wiretapping then you're a
threat to national security


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