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Newsday’s Walt Handelsman, aided by Roy Furchgott, has a wonderful animated cartoon featuring singing spies.\u00a0 The cartoon is here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This makes the National Security Agency wiretap issue so simple even a congressman might be able to get the point.\u00a0 Perhaps\u00a0congressmen will respond by merely adding an amendment to a “spying legalization” bill\u00a0to prohibit the feds from tapping the phones of congressmen, their children, and their mistresses and\/or personal pages.<\/p>\n

[hat tip to ace editor & libertarian truth-teller\u00a0Sheldon Richman<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsday’s Walt Handelsman, aided by Roy Furchgott, has a wonderful animated cartoon featuring singing spies.\u00a0 The cartoon is here. This makes the National Security Agency wiretap issue so simple even a congressman might be able to get the point.\u00a0 Perhaps\u00a0congressmen will respond by merely adding an amendment to a “spying legalization” bill\u00a0to prohibit the feds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,6,10,665,655],"class_list":{"0":"post-197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard","9":"tag-bush","10":"tag-surveillance","11":"tag-wiretapping"},"yoast_head":"\nGreat Cartoon Bashing NSA Wiretaps on Americans - 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\/10\/24\/great-cartoon-bashing-nsa-wiretaps-on-americans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Great Cartoon Bashing NSA Wiretaps on Americans - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Newsday’s Walt Handelsman, aided by Roy Furchgott, has a wonderful animated cartoon featuring singing spies.\u00a0 The cartoon is here. 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