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- AgeofMastery, on 05/19/2009, -1/+32Hopefully it's a sign of things to come.
- novenator, on 05/19/2009, -0/+20Taking on the entrenched beltway establishment one issue at a time. This is why we need to be patient folks, the president may be the most powerful office in the land, but it is relatively weak compared to the parasites that run the show behind the scenes.
- rizzin, on 05/19/2009, -3/+15Any time the government requests any information from or about its citizen's that is not already inside the government it should be required to obtain a warrant because what ever it is doing is investigative in nature.
I believe there is also a strong case for making most or all inter-agency date transfers require a warrant as well, but I am not ready to come right out and demand that as well until I have had more time to work some of the implications over more. - 3tcp, on 05/19/2009, -0/+8Well, it's a start. I'll hold the applause until after he stops the other unconstitutional surveillance & detainment *****.
- BaphClass, on 05/19/2009, -4/+12Read as: "Obama administration reins in FBI's SNL-related gag orders."
"I'll take the rapist." - AdeleMor, on 05/19/2009, -3/+8Thank god, not another 180 turn from the administration.
- DiggityDugged, on 05/19/2009, -0/+4I was gonna say "Obama administration reins in FBI's SNL-related gags" but you beat me to it.
- inactive, on 05/19/2009, -0/+4Five steps backward, one step forward. Patient but...where will we be in 10 or 20 years is the question.
- Barackalypse, on 05/19/2009, -1/+5I'm confused, Obama supports the whole "State secrets" thing in relation to the warrantless wiretapping (that he also voted to give telcoms immunity for), but then here he's on the correct side of this issue, even though he voted to re-authorize the very Patriot Act that helps make it possible for the Government to do this in the first place. If only we had elected someone that was consistently on the side of liberty and limited Government.
- wild, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3You cut a hole in the Fox...
- Chunken, on 05/19/2009, -0/+3Woah a news item involving the government that doesn't result in Americans getting screwed even worse. Haven't seen one of these in a while.
- Ranzera, on 05/19/2009, -2/+5I think our government agencies sharing information between themselves is a positive for everyone. What I don't like are dubious methods of gaining information (ie: warrentless wiretapping).
- TexMexRex, on 05/19/2009, -1/+3It has taken real courage to "not to ask the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision" and you mock them!?
- ShadowofAres, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2I can't help but stop reading after you use a word like "correct"
- yerdaddy, on 05/19/2009, -3/+4step one
- FredFredrickson, on 05/19/2009, -2/+3Are you going to say that every time they do something right now?
- neoquietus, on 05/19/2009, -0/+1I suspect that his differing actions on these two subjects are based on pragmatism: he probably believes (or has seen evidence) that the "state secrets thing" is at least slightly more beneficial than harmful, but feels the opposite about "NSL-gag orders".
- mbtria, on 05/19/2009, -1/+2This sounds like a desirable change in direction, but we have been mislead by such behaviors before. There may indeed be a hook in this attractive piece of bait. I would like to see a full legal analysis of just what it will and won't mean.
- Whackly, on 05/19/2009, -4/+2"Weighs in" is what you meant right? Cause "reins in" is a direct action which this was not, justified and clever though it was.
- EricAnderton, on 05/19/2009, -8/+3For the dyslexic, this has nothing to do with how soon we'll see the next Andy Samberg video or digital short.
- inactive, on 05/19/2009, -9/+4"Obama Stands Behind 'State Secrets' Defense"
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