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Originally Posted by BBKing
The background to this is that in the 60s there was a lot of illegal wiretapping going on under the carpet, mainly the Hoover FBI v anyone they didn't like politically, like Martin Luther King. Nixon was naturally a big fan, being paranoid and corrupt. Naturally when this got exposed there was a bit of a scandal, so they passed an Act in the late 1970s called FISA which allowed wiretapping under judicial supervision.
For Bush and co., judicial supervision is an unnecessary control on supreme executive power, so they ignored it and went back to the old ways, learned in the Nixon White House so many of them grew up in. When this illegal activity inevitably leaked out they tried to grant retrospective immunity to the telecoms companies who colluded and it all got messy. What's obvious is that the current administration would dearly like to tap the phone of anyone, anytime without anyone knowing or any external supervision, under the handy all-encompassing 'anti-terror' excuse. This isn't quite the freedom-loving America they're sworn to defend, is it?
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LOL, surely there is not anyone around now who still believes they can communicate via a public network and it not be monitored ?
Anoniminity and privacy over public networks is nothing but a falacy, a figment of someones imagination just as your permitted to believe you live in a free society.