The Slippery Slope To Big Brother - Congress Passes Telecom Immunity Bill.

Thoughtful summary article by Ars Technica about the debate in Congress over telecom immunity for conducting domestic warrentless wiretaps.

Favorite quotes:

"Third, it contains specific provisions barring the use of
authorizations targeting parties abroad as a pretext for targeting U.S.
persons, presumably to be enforced by a board of psychics."

and:

"Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) invoked the specter of past intelligence
abuses, such as the wiretapping of Martin Luther King and the FBI's
controversial COINTELPRO operation—an argument Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)
dismissed by conceding the political abuse of surveillance powers in
the past but asserting that "those days are behind us." (The latter
development coinciding, as chance would have it, with the passage of
legislation prohibiting warrantless wiretaps.)"

Big Brother 1: Due Process 0.

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