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Re: Watch your language, Shabbir.



[email protected] wrote:
> > Look, very carefully, at the last paragraph quoted above.  Mr. Safdar
> > says, "No reasonable person is objecting to the FBI's right to conduct
> > a wiretap."
> 
> That's right. Because no reasonable person thinks they can convince Congress
> or the Supremes otherwise. It isn't impossible, but energies are best spent
> elsewhere, like getting the Burns bill passed.

The choice of words was exceedlingly poor if that's what he really meant.
Though I agree that it's unlikely any LEA will give up capabilities it's
grown to imagine is has a "right" to have, I haven't stopped objecting.

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