How appropriate of a title!
From SFGate.com
The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration’s wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers who claim federal agents illegally intercepted their phone calls and gained access to their records.
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Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a lawyer for the customers, said Monday the filing was disappointing in light of the Obama presidential campaign’s “unceasing criticism of Bush-era secrecy and promise for more transparency.” (more…)
Flashback
Gore Says Bush Wiretapping Could Be Impeachable Offense
I remember when this became a hot issue under Bush and how folks were quick to gin up the wayback machine–reminding Black folks that civil rights leaders like MLK, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and others were wiretapped.
Quick! Talk about something else.
