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To: LindyBill who wrote (172041)	7/2/2006 12:26:38 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) of 793822

This is the emerging line of defense: The financial surveillance program was not much of a secret anyway, so national security was not compromised by the decision to reveal it. If true, that raises the question: if the program was not much of a secret, why was it considered worthy of 2000+ words on the front page? The greatest achievement of our founding fathers was to ensure freedom of the press and to protect individual liberties. The founding fathers did not think they needed to write a white paper on how to fight would be enemies. There was a good reason for them to put the emphasis on where they thought there was most need. They wanted to make sure that dictators do not come along and use any flimsy excuse to take that away from us. Enemies come and go. The enemies before us now are no more competent and dangerous than any enemies that we have ever faced or are likely to face. We have to fight the enemy without subverting our own laws or ethics. That is where we have to be most vigilant. our enemies will be defeated. There is no doubt about that. It matters how we do it.

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