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Re:Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008) by brown9-2 on Friday June 07, 2013 @10:45AM (#5839180)
It makes the criticism of "But you said X!" irrelevant.
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Re:Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008) by nathan_long on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:10AM (#5839325)
Oh, sure it does. "Technically, if you parse my statements with the help of a lawyer, I didn't say X at all!"

That's extremely satisfying, isn't it?

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Re:Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008) by tomjakubowski on Friday June 07, 2013 @02:55PM (#5840902)
You really don't need a lawyer to understand the difference between a wiretap and collecting telephone metadata.
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Re:Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008) by mikeash on Friday June 07, 2013 @11:10AM (#5839326)
I strongly disagree. People did not take that statement to mean "we will do basically the same stuff, but slightly better". This is essentially just a loophole, which we should not tolerate.
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