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CIA and Military to Have U.S. Snooping Powers?

Posted by michael on from the descent-into-madness dept.

Mr.Intel writes "The NY Times is reporting that 'The Bush administration and leading Senate Republicans sought today to give the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon far-reaching new powers to demand personal and financial records on people in the United States as part of foreign intelligence and terrorism operations.' Although the measure was beaten back in committee, it appears that the administration is not satisfied with Patriot or Patriot II type powers..."

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  1. Re:Where's the well armed militia? by ubikkibu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Right on. With notable exceptions, "freedom" for most gun nuts means the freedom for everyone to Love the USA the Way I Do, or go back to Roosha^h^h^hFrance. Having said that, we are perilously close to the state of affairs where the right to bear arms actually starts to make a smidgen of sense again. I'm never going to buy a gun. But our government as it functions today with the current "leadership" needs to be dismantled completely. . Hello, spooks. How did you get here so fast?