> It did it; for two generations. On the specific issue of internal surveillance and its abuses, that is laughable, given the way that accelerated after WWII,

> It did it; for two generations. On the specific issue of internal surveillance and its abuses, that is laughable, given the way that accelerated after WWII, with no substantial attempt at checking it until some fairly limited reforms were adopted in the 1970s after the Nixon-era abuses, with those restrictions being fairly flagrantly ignored (and formally weakened) after 9/11.