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How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Domestic Wiretapping - Via Threat Level:

It's nice to see that the Republican party is operating a WPA-like program for former Rudy Guiliani's presidential campaign ad makers.

Consider this GOP video as a make-work program for propagandists given the job of scaring freedom-loving people with phantoms of lost wiretaps, without realizing that the fear mongering is so 2004.

For those who want to know why the expiration of the so-called Protect America Act isn't a big deal, see our earlier post on the House's refusal to adopt the Senate's spying bill, which precipitated the current round of fear mongering.

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