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To: Carry_Okie
Up until the passage of the Bill of Rights amendments and the Constitution we were under British Law, and its infamous Official Secrets Acts. That's why you will find very little written about Brit criminal cases beyond arraignment, until after sentencing is completed at trial. The Peter Zenger case may be a small data point in the jurisdictional heavens, but it was massively important to the Patriots of the day.

It may not have been called the NSA, but it was the logical start to its beginning. IMHO       :^)

4 posted on 06/10/2013 10:02:45 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: brityank

Now that I’ve had time to peruse, it’s a good job of putting the picture together. It does show how much contempt Bush et al. held for the Constitution. Still, I’d have started the story in the late 1940s with the OSS.


6 posted on 06/10/2013 10:48:41 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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