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Ah the "terrorism" card. Remember that its been shown found a number of times (including by the president's own 'show' committee) that the operations in question were not important facets in discovering or preventing any terrorist plots.

It also stands to reason that most of the 'terrorists' (People the FBI setup not withstanding) were aware of the faceless wiretapping and ability of the govt to get data from google/yahoo/att/etc in the first place. Given that there were stories about such things (to a limited extent) since around 2006.




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