The American Spectator reposted online this morning a piece I wrote for them 13 years ago on the proliferation of government surveillance. Â I included some of this in my 2000 book, Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years. Â If memory serves, reviewers denounced my paranoia on surveillance issue […]
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Latest Wiretap Scandal Part of Long Pattern
So Verizon has been ordered to deliver to the feds the calling records of all its customers. Â Appalling but not surprising. Here’s a 2006 piece I wrote on the burgeoning wiretapping scandals for American Conservative. Â Here’s a few highlights: * The latest revelations are simply one in a series of revelations of the feds […]
Boston Globe: The ‘Terrorist’ Batting Average
The Boston Globe ran my piece today on how the Bush administration almost always strikes out when it accuses people of being terrorists. Here’s the text: The ‘terrorist’ batting average By James Bovard | July 21, 2006   Boston Globe AFTER THE US Supreme Court’s recent decision limiting military tribunals, Congress is scrambling to pass a […]