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I know Jake. I had the proud privilege of employing Jake. This is a fishing expedition, and an absolute abuse of the EPIC and PATRIOT acts. The NYT filed a l
by davidu 15y ago
I know Jake. I had the proud privilege of employing Jake. This is a fishing expedition, and an absolute abuse of the EPIC and PATRIOT acts.
The NYT filed a lawsuit yesterday to try to start getting some transparency into these matters -- even Congress is urging people to find out the truth:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111010/04043716279/nytimes-sues-federal-government-refusing-to-reveal-its-secret-interpretation-patriot-act.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111010/04043716279/nytime...
People can dislike Wikileaks all they want, but this is exactly why they exist. The raw information is not being released and they see fit to do so. When the USG has a law on the books that congress passed but the DoJ won't share their interpretation of what the law means, you know something is very very wrong. (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial )