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IP: you should be outraged that a few members [I know I am djf]
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 19:19:12 -0400
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 09:11:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Gillmor <dgillmor () sjmercury com> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: http://www.mercurycenter.com/columnists/gillmor/docs/dg101398.htm IT was, to paraphrase one commentator's apt reaction, a sneak attack on liberty. Late last week, in the legislative dead of night, Congress gave law enforcement unprecedented new power to wiretap your communications. You can argue whether this particular expansion of wiretapping authority, called the ''roving wiretap'' in law-enforcement circles, is a good or bad idea. However you feel about it, you should be outraged that a few members of Congress, cowed by the FBI and indifferent to your privacy, sneaked this provision into law without any debate or voting on its merits.
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