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Bipartisan Backlash Grows Against Domestic Surveillance
- a3n 13y agoThe problem with scaling back is that they'll just shift it around and do exactly the same thing. The Justice Department has shown the way here. Just as they're aggressively hunting and prosecuting leakers, they need to aggressively prosecute and jail government and contractor executives for Constitutional violations. As long as those in charge believe they won't be punished, they'll take that as a wink and a nod, and cloak themselves in patriotism. Heads must roll.