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from today’s lead Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a><\/strong> editorial:
\n\u00a0“Since the Treasury story broke, as it happens, no one but Congressman Ed Markey and a few cranks have even objected to the program, much less claimed illegality.”<\/p>\n

I look forward to the Journal<\/em> editorial page’s updates on this subject as news leaks out about how this surveillance program ran amok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from today’s lead Wall Street Journal editorial: \u00a0“Since the Treasury story broke, as it happens, no one but Congressman Ed Markey and a few cranks have even objected to the program, much less claimed illegality.” I look forward to the Journal editorial page’s updates on this subject as news leaks out about how this surveillance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,6,665],"class_list":{"0":"post-139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard","9":"tag-surveillance"},"yoast_head":"\nWall Street Journal replies to my hit on Bush's illegal financial surveillance - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/30\/wall-street-journal-replies-to-my-hit-on-bushs-illegal-financial-surveillance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wall Street Journal replies to my hit on Bush's illegal financial surveillance - 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