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FISA Renewal: Only a Fool…

By Jim on December 27, 2012

Only a fool would expect members of Congress to give a damn about his rights and liberties.

That’s the lesson from today’s Senate floor debate on extending the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans under FISA.

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