WTF: Homeland Security Opening Private Mail

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Be afraid, citizens. Be very afraid.

Via MSNBC.

[snip]

In the 50 years that Grant Goodman has known and corresponded with a colleague in the Philippines he never had any 
reason to suspect that their friendship was anything but spectacularly ordinary.

But now he believes that the relationship has somehow sparked the interest of the Department of Homeland Security and 
led the agency to place him under surveillance.

Last month Goodman, an 81-year-old retired University of Kansas history professor, received a letter from his friend in 
the Philippines that had been opened and resealed with a strip of dark green tape bearing the words “by Border 
Protection” and carrying the official Homeland Security seal.

“I had no idea (Homeland Security) would open personal letters,” Goodman told MSNBC.com in a phone interview. “That’s 
why I alerted the media. I thought it should be known publicly that this is going on,” he said. Goodman originally 
showed the letter to his own local newspaper, the Kansas-based Lawrence Journal-World.

[snip]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10740935/

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
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