"Erected in secret, without any public input, these surveillance programs amount to an electronic concentration camp which houses every single person in the United States today."
It wasn't done in secret, it was being done in the open. Congress made it slightly harder, but Bush and Cheney and the others in their administration made damn sure it was going to survive one way or the other. FReepers were keeping track of it.
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