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Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program
From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:57:40 -0700
Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:21:04 EDT, Dude VanWinkle said:If elected officials are breaking the law. and the only backlash is "stop doing that", I dont think the govt officials will fear the law. I think it would be nice to put the fear of law back into "our" elected officials :-)You'd think that worrying about being branded "law-breakers" at the next election campaign would be sufficient motivation....
Um, the executive branch is not up for election next cycle. Its only the House of Representatives and 1/3 of the Senate, iirc. Next vote on the executive branch is 2+ years away (which is almost exactly 2+ years past the average voters' memory.) Now I guess a change of House control could result in a good old fashioned impeachment... -- Dave Dittrich Information Assurance Researcher, dittrich () u washington edu The iSchool http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE97 0C57 0843 F3EB 49A1 0CD0 8E0C D0BE C838 CCB5 _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Fergie (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Brian Loe (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Dude VanWinkle (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Brian Loe (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Dave Dittrich (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Dude VanWinkle (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Brian Loe (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Dude VanWinkle (Aug 17)
- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Mailing Lists (Aug 17)
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- Re: [privacy] Federal Judge Orders End to Wiretap Program Fergie (Aug 17)