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   From: kiltmac@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/21/2013 11:22 PM, Jason wrote:   
   > In article , Tom McDonald   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 5/21/2013 9:41 PM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   >>> Tom McDonald  wrote in   
   >>> news:reUmt.11860$v46.8618@newsfe13.iad:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 5/21/2013 7:17 PM, Jason wrote:   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>>>> Good point. I hope they have a congressional investigation about the   
   >>>>> AP scandal. It's just as serious as the IRS scandal.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Someone should write letters to Holder and Obama and remind them that   
   >>>>> the constitution mentions freedom of the press. Perhaps they have   
   >>>>> forgotten about what they learned about the constitution.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> Your problem there is that your guy, Bush2, pushed through the laws   
   >>>> that make what happened to the AP entirely legal. You knew that it was   
   >>>> legal, right?   
   >>>   
   >>> So I assume your take is that since Bush did it, it makes it alright for   
   >>> Obama to do it?   No chance that both of them are wrong?   
   >>>   
   >> No, my take is that just about all of the laws passed in the hysteria   
   >> about terrorism, especially those that restrict constitutional rights,   
   >> are wrong, cowardly and un-American. This is an example of how we gave   
   >> up freedom for almost-certainly-illusory security.   
   >>   
   >> Whether it's a Democratic or a Republican administration doing it, I   
   >> think it's wrong. Period.   
   >   
   > Do you agree that Holder violated the constitution when he forced the AP   
   > to give the federal government their phone records? yes or no   
   >   
   >   
   First, do you think the Patriot Act provision under which this was made   
   legal is constitutional? Yes or no.   
      
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