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My Kelly Girl past is now no longer secret). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bovard: <\/strong><br \/>\nNational Security letters have already been a complete disaster. The FBI has used those to put the Fourth Amendment through a shredder. We have no idea how many innocent people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at Antiwar.com Radio added a transcript to the MP3 of last week&#8217;s interview. My comments on the Obama administration&#8217;s ploy to increase FBI surveillance power are excerpted here at the top. (The full text is below. My Kelly Girl past is now no longer secret). 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