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Cold War Warrantless Wiretapping
somanyrobots writes "President Gerald Ford secretly authorized the use of warrantless domestic wiretaps for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes soon after coming into office, according to a declassified document. The Dec. 19, 1974, White House memorandum, marked Top Secret / Exclusively Eyes Only and signed by Ford, gave then-Attorney General William B. Saxbe and his successors in office authorization 'to approve, without prior judicial warrants, specific electronic surveillance within the United States which may be requested by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.'" And reader jlaprise1 adds, "My research [from 2009] makes the news! President Ford authorized warrantless wiretaps in December 1976 and laid the foundation (PDF) for US telecommunications security policy."
No, I don't at all feel persecuted in any way. I don't think anyone is out to get me. Do you understand now? I'm pointing out that in the political spectrum in the US the press corp is left leaning. I'm not saying there is some main stream media monster that is out to suppress the poor right wing. I don't watch fox, I don't watch CNN, I frankly don't watch TV much at all, I get my news from a wide variety of domestic and foreign news websites, and after reading a lot of diverse opinion, I make up my own mind. So you stereotyping me with some preconceived class of people that you have seen from time to time saying whateverthefuck is wrong. Take that as you will.
And frankly, there was no need for you to be such a prick from the get go. Just jump right out there, stereotype someone, put a bunch of words in his mouth about persecution and right wing angst that was never there, and call him an idiot. I can't imagine you have many friends in real life with that sort of personality. Jack ass.