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David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
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*   ...in 1993, it appears in that year alone the government agents
*   listened to something like 810,000 conversations.

Of course, the NSA has stated it needs no warrants and doesn't even consider
the legality of purely domestic wiretaps.

*   The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision
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*   P229: "There's your smoking pistol right here." Watters says it is tied
*   into the local telephone company circuits, which are interconnected with
*   the national microwave telephone system owned by AT&T. Other specialists
*   testified to the same thing: purely domestic intercepts.

I would say a MINIMUM of 100 million purely domestic U.S. conversations
are run through NSA keyword monitoring each year.


And who is listening to all our court authorized conversations?

*   "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
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*   Under a little-noticed section of a 1986 law, Congress dropped the
*   requirement that only the FBI's high-priced Special Agents could
*   listen to the tapes. The FBI now hires low-cost clerks for what must
*   be extremely tedious work.

An army of low-cost clerks are listening to our private conversations?

I feel sick.

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Conclusion: Louis Freeh is a manipulative liar.

Louis Freeh is a Scary Man with the morals of a styrofoam cup.

 
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                            National ID Card
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*  C-SPAN Congressional Television: outside coming down the Senate building's
*  steps, Senator Biden with Senator Simpson in tow proclaims: "What's wrong
*  with a National ID Card? It's the same tired old arguments against it."

As if sane people shouldn't be paranoid about a National ID Card.

*   "New Rules Mean Job-Hunters Need Proof of Identity", The New York Times
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*   Passports, driver's licenses, Social Secu