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I wonder how many NSL's the FBI used against the bankers that collapsed the economy in 2008. Probably a big whooping zero.


Well, regardless of how much you hate bankers, you'd hope like it to be zero--it's not a matter of national security, after all.

I wouldn't want the government to brazenly expand its powers regardless of whether I agree with the particular activity in question.


With the fervor the government makes everything a matter of national security and then refuses to disclose on what grounds it does so (because, duh, thats a matter of national security), surely systemic banks reach to the level of importance of "national security".




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