All Posts Tagged With: "national security letters"
How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty
Preserving trust in government is the highest good—at least for politicians. To create that trust, government continually spawns façades to make people believe their rights are safe. Few things better illustrate this charade than the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. In 2004, three years after the Patriot Act was enacted, politicians started to worry [...]
22Dec2010 | James Bovard | 7 comments | ContinuedNational Insecurity
Are we so afraid that we are eager to trash irreversibly what’s left of our civil liberties?
30Jul2010 | Sheldon Richman | 24 comments | Continued-
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