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BIG change re: spy-on-Americans program
Secret Court to Govern Wiretapping Plan - Washington Post, Jan. 17, 2006:
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The Justice Department announced today that the National Security Agency's controversial warrantless surveillance program has been placed under the authority of a secret surveillance court, marking an abrupt change in approach by the Bush administration after more than a year of heated debate.
In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said that orders issued on Jan. 10 by an unidentified judge puts the NSA program under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret panel that oversees most intelligence surveillance in the United States.
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Excellent. This program should have been conducted under FISA all along.
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The officials said the new approach will offer the same benefits of the NSA program, along with the advantage of judicial oversight.
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Ah, that wonderful word - oversight! 
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The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
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