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Re:Obama administration wanted warrantless access rights to ... by danudey on Friday April 16, 2010 @02:52PM (#1271516)
There have been crazies ranting about how the government reads all your e-mail for years. Now that they're ACTUALLY trying to do that, no one is listening, because it's the same message as before.

If the people spouting unfounded conspiracy theories all the time would just shut the hell up, then maybe people wouldn't see this as crying wolf.

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Re:Obama administration wanted warrantless access rights to ... by tjic on Friday April 16, 2010 @03:03PM (#1271556)
> There have been crazies ranting about how the government reads all your e-mail for years.

Yeah, those of us who were protesting Bill Clinton and Al Gore's backing of the Clipper Chip 17 years ago were just lunatics. It's not like we managed to stop a horrible government program or anything. It's YOU young heroes who are the first ones EVER to stand up for your rights against government monitoring communications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

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Re:Obama administration wanted warrantless access rights to ... by metamemetics on Friday April 16, 2010 @05:40PM (#1272013)
I'm not sure if they read all email, but they definitely warrantlessly monitored telecommunications during the Bush administration, severely enough that our government had to pass a bill saying you couldn't sue your phone company for breaking surveillance laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepting_v._AT&T

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co...

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