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From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Wiretapping reality today
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 93 23:16:29 PST
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In article <strnlghtC5z0KA.B9u@netcom.com> (sci.crypt), strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
> You should read the history. It was Hoover who stopped Nixon's COINTELPRO
> dead in its tracks because he said it was unconstitutional. They tried to
> get around him every way they could.
> 

Unfortunately, Hoover thought himself above the constitution, whatever he
considered the limits others should obey. He ruthlessly invaded the privacy
of many private and public citizens. 

  -mel

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