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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?

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To: Les H who wrote (8171)10/13/1998 3:01:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (3) of 13994
 
Les - Re: Your latest dispatch from the Maoist front on Big Brother Spying.

It's not really a question of the pot calling the kettle black, at this point, because the American Revolutionary Communist Party USA is not in power, although it sure would go potty if there was a chance of it. <g>

More to the point: How much of this is standard Far Left paranoia, and how much if it, in your opinion, has some basis in fact? You didn't say.

I do know that in Russia, for example, the spy agency (Primakov's old bailiwick) is seeking (and may have already received ) the power to spy on all Internet messages (including, of course, those from abroad).

Right now, it seems to me that in this country we should perhaps be more concerned about the steady upcreep (new coinage) of wiretapping...

jbe

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