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To: jennyjenny
"Clinton did it" is a pretty sorry rationale for government spying on American citizens. Clinton did a lot of things that shouldn't have been done.

Has it been confirmed this was done on American citizens? On Fox this morning they were saying it had not yet been confirmed these were American citizens, just that they were phone calls coming in to and going out of the US.

Interesting point. That being said, do any one of us have the Constitutional right to have a private conversation with Bin Laden? Certainly FDR would not have tolerated phone calls from Adolf to say... Charles Lindberg. Would Jefferson have refrained from reading communications from the Barbary Pirates to American citizens? I don't know the answer but it's interesting to think about.

23 posted on 12/20/2005 8:11:07 AM PST by rhombus
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To: rhombus
I don't know the answer but it's interesting to think about.

What's there to think about?

56 posted on 12/20/2005 9:34:51 AM PST by Publius6961 (The IQ of California voters is about 420........... .............cumulatively)
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To: rhombus

"Interesting point. That being said, do any one of us have the Constitutional right to have a private conversation with Bin Laden? Certainly FDR would not have tolerated phone calls from Adolf to say... Charles Lindberg. Would Jefferson have refrained from reading communications from the Barbary Pirates to American citizens? I don't know the answer but it's interesting to think about."

Really? You have to think about it? Talk about moral-relativism!

driveserve


67 posted on 12/20/2005 10:20:32 AM PST by driveserve
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