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The Fate of Civil Liberties in National Crises

The system I would want is I would want an assurance that if some extraordinary measure has to be put in place temporarily to deal with a temporary crisis, that the word “temporary” will in fact continue to apply. And I will add that this is a moment when I really wish we had a functioning Congress.

The Conversation #45 – James Bamford

You’re not going to get a generation of people outraged that somebody’s reading their email like you would’ve in the 70s getting a generation of people outraged that you’re reading their snail mail.

@congressedits: Politics + Wikipedia + Twitter = ?

I think there’s a set of bizarre individuals in the Capitol building that once they realized that @congressedits was there and had a lot of followers, they were adding these crazy things to Wikipedia. So in this case somebody’s saying Rumsfeld was an alien lizard.