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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 08:59 PM
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So are we only going to spy on REAL terrorists from now on
I wonder how much taxpayers' money has been wasted by Bush and Cheney spying on innocent citizens?

Hopefully we will see a shake up in this department?
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 09:06 PM
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1. Better Question: What are we going to do to prevent it again
Edited on Thu Jan-22-09 09:07 PM by FreakinDJ
Sure imprisoning the perps would go a long way to help - but we need to enact laws to prevent it from EVER happening again
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 09:08 PM
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2. we need to stick to real problems that our country faces
not some Orwellian whim of the last administration!
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-09 07:49 AM
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12. If you Value Democracy it is a REAL problem
Sure we have an Obama administration now -

but what of the future
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 09:16 PM
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3. This is a good question and I'm glad you brought it up
How are we going to identify the real perps to begin with? More focus on the granting of visas and follow up? Satellite surveillance?

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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 09:19 PM
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4. this is why we pay the intelligence agencies
we pay them to find enemies but they've been side-tracked
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 09:22 PM
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5. And how do they do that?
I mean, what is the process? Watching international money moves? Watching raw material production, transfers, and usage? It is thought-provoking to me.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 10:28 PM
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7. the process is real intelligence
people are highly trained and technology is improving. Yes of course internatinal money is scrutinized, nuclear materials, weapons etc but we need to cut the nonsense.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 09:37 PM
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6. Maybe no one - since it is hard to infiltrate "real terrorists"
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 10:37 PM
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8. the idea is to go after real terrorists
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sohndrsmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 10:39 PM
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9. I'm watching Tice's 2nd interview w/KO right now - man,
this is too creepy for words.... and indefensible... I'm so glad he's come forward (again).
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 10:57 PM
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10. Uhm, if we knew who was guilty and innocent ahead of time, that might work.
Slight problem with that idea, though.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-09 11:06 PM
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11. wasting time spying on people who wanted bicycle trails
in Maryland
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