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NSA wiretapping is found to be illegal
ecthompsonmd August 17, 2006

Say it ain’t so?  Progressives have said this since last December that the program was illegal.  The whole first chapter of Glenn Greenwald’s book, How Should the Patriot Act?, clearly delineates how the program is illegal.  This was actually a no-brainer.  Again, let me state for the record, that I believe that domestic surveillance is important.  It is an important tool in the war against terrorism.  This tool should be used within the scope of the law.  All domestic surveillance should be overseen by the courts.  Domestic surveillance without oversight leads to abuse.  Finally, remember that the FISA laws were written during the

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Wiretapping your phone and mine
ecthompsonmd June 22, 2006

I wrote this article and submitted it as an op-ed piece.  It was published in the Asheville Citizen Times on February 14, 2006. ————————- For several weeks now, Americans have been aware that our government is eavesdropping upon our private communications, calling these activities a “terrorist surveillance program.” These invasions of our privacy, we are told, have all been in the name of homeland security and have been characterized as part of President Bush’s war on terrorism. I’m only a physician, not a spy, but I cannot believe we have come to this. Since the attacks on the World Trade Center

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