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Jacob Sullum learns how to start worrying and question the NSA.

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|5.17.06 @ 9:47AM|

Great article!

|5.17.06 @ 9:56AM|

...my grocery store, my cable company, and my credit card company can identify me based on my phone number, but the National Security Agency can't.


Priceless!!

|5.17.06 @ 10:00AM|

The way to stop the war on terror is the same way to stop the war on drugs: Try to asuage the hysteria.
Good luck!

|5.17.06 @ 10:16AM|

My big question: in the photo of W., is that 1) a special phone with the cord attached to the ear-piece, 2) a photo-shop job or 3) a genuine artifact of W. ineptitude?

|5.17.06 @ 11:35AM|

Strong article!

Instead, the NSA resorted to extra-legal methods, pressuring the phone companies to divulge the data through appeals to patriotism, warnings about terrorism, and (according to USA Today) threats of lost government contracts.

This illustrates another good reason to make government small. It takes leverage away from them.

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