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Feingold: Wiretap Deal 'No Compromise, It's Capitulation'
Submitted by Christopher Lempa on Thu, 2008-06-19 16:00
?Wary of making the debate between liberty and security into a campaign issue, Congressional Democrats appear ready to retreat in their years-long effort to instill some sort of accountability on the Bush administration and its enablers in the telecommunications industry for their extra-legal surveillance of Americans.?
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