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Conservatives are the ones that created this nightmare in the days after 9/11. The secret surveillance goes to the FISA surveillance act, from back in 1978. I
by CWuestefeld 10y ago
Conservatives are the ones that created this nightmare in the days after 9/11.
The secret surveillance goes to the FISA surveillance act, from back in 1978.
I'm not inclined to put a party's stamp on this, I too believe it's systemic. But if you must, that was under Democrat Jimmy Carter's Presidency, with large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.
- dllthomas 10y agoSecret surveillance preceded FISA - FISA was specifically an attempt to rein it in. I am very much with you in not wanting to apply party labels here.