Shockingly, Your Government is Spying on You

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| Wed Jun. 17, 2009 6:53 AM PDT

The New York Times reports today that National Security Agency "monitoring" of domestic email messages is "broader than previously acknowledged" and the agency is still examining "large volumes of Americans’ e-mail messages without court warrants." The fact that this kind of thing is no longer surprising is a sad commentary on the state of the Fourth Amendment.

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