A Brief History of Government Surveillance


	A Brief History of Government Surveillance

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/917359af-5663-4116-955f-3f183c8f1ac6/B7BE2978-A700-4102-9AC9-6B6695D412A9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nationofcriminals.com/crimes/a_brief_history_government_surveillance" href="http://www.nationofcriminals.com/crimes/a_brief_history_government_surveillance" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nationofcriminals.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationofcriminals.com/crimes/a_brief_history_government_surveillance">Many people, when confronted with outrage on the issue of government spying, immediately say something like "That's nothing new, the government has been spying on citizens forever". This marginalizes the issue and downplays how awful this problem has become. It also gives the culprits in today's surveillance society a free pass. That's not how we roll at nationofcriminals.com, so let's look at the history of spying, where we are now, and where things could go if the current trends continue. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationofcriminals.com/crimes/a_brief_history_government_surveillance"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nationofcriminals.com/img/80B9DC16-32CB-4218-9CA8-0E423385F1BC" alt="Government Wiretapping" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationofcriminals.com/crimes/a_brief_history_government_surveillance"><P>In order for the government (really, the Justice Department) to listen to any American citizen's private conversation, several things needed to happen first.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationofcriminals.com/crimes/a_brief_history_government_surveillance"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">There must have been some kind of justifiable suspicion upon the person in question.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationofcriminals.com/crimes/a_brief_history_government_surveillance"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A judge must know about the situation and declare that it is suspicious enough to justify the breach of civil liberties. This protected your fourth amendment rights which prevent unreasonable searches.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nationofcriminals.com/crimes/a_brief_history_government_surveillance"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The warrant is issued to the phone company. </LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B7BE2978-A700-4102-9AC9-6B6695D412A9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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