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- December 16, 2005 @ 3:13 pm · Filed under Legalese

I hope that my grandmother still recalls her Pearl Harbor day story at the art deco LA Federal building.  I think that I’m going to record it for the StoryCorps  if she does.

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Hm, it has come to light in the Times that the President secretly authorized electronic eavesdropping (wire tapping and email monitoring) without a warrant. This article is part of the reason why the Patriot Act renewal is stalled at the moment, taking away the President’s ability to authorize such warrantless eavesdropping
after these provisions expire on the December 31st:

Several senators held up copies of The New York Times, which reported
today that President Bush secretly authorized the National Security
Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to
search for evidence of terrorist activity, but without court-approved
warrants ordinarily required for such surveillance. 

This is the
best news that I heard in a while.  As they used to say at the EFF, “Let the sun set on the Patriot Act.”

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And do you realize that if I ever become a public interest attorney, I
will turn into one self- righteous mofo?  I’m worried that I’ll
pick up the “Dude, I took a pay cut to defend your rights” mentality among the cashmere clad set.

2 Comments

  1. ToastyKen

    December 16, 2005 @ 8:31 pm

    1

    Hurray for self-righteous echan! 🙂

  2. Echan Deravy

    December 17, 2005 @ 3:13 am

    2

    I was looking on the net for others who share my first name.I never expected to find any since it is a rather rare one. Perhaps you could share some information on the name origin?

    best
    Echan

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