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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts) Sat Jul 20, 2013, 03:59 AM Jul 2013

Paragraph of the Week

Source: Wired.com

The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the wholesale vacuuming up of all phone-call metadata in the United States is in the “public interest,” does not breach the constitutional rights of Americans and cannot be challenged in a court of law.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/spygate-snooping-standing/

You can almost hear a rim-shot at the end.

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Paragraph of the Week (Original Post) cthulu2016 Jul 2013 OP

Is that a rimshot? bluedeathray Jul 2013 #1

War is Peace. woo me with science Jul 2013 #2

bluedeathray

(511 posts)

1. Is that a rimshot?

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 04:46 AM

Jul 2013

Or the echo of another crack in the Constitution?

Leading to the proverbial "straw on the camel's back"?

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)

2. War is Peace.

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 05:08 AM

Jul 2013

Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
Chained CPI is Superlative.
Drone murders are Legal, Ethical, and Wise.
Health Care is Affordable.
Edward Snowden is the Traitor.
G.H.W. Bush made the world a Kinder and Gentler Place.
and Spying on the Public is in the Public Interest.

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