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Originally posted by russotto
With the controls down, we'll get the worst of both worlds -- national intelligence resources will be used for ordinary investigations (bye-bye fourth amendment -- no longer are your phone calls to mom between you, your mother, and the NSA), but the damn terrorists will still get through, perhaps by communicating through SPAM or some such thing.
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ok - i won't argue this point - but isn't this one of the big questions from the commission "why weren't the agencies collaborating?" and the answer is still - it was not legal until passage of the patriot act. and the american public would never have accepted the PA if we had not been attacked.