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DoJ Quashes Wiretapping Inquiries

Department of Justice sues states to protect its questionable wiretapping policies with major telecommunications companies.

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri

Though Maine resident Doug Cowie just celebrated his 75th birthday in October, it was only this past January that he retired from the Maine Public Utility Commission (PUC) where he worked for 18 years. It would be easy to think of Cowie as an innocuous grandfatherly type—particularly after his response when I told him some of his e-mails ended up in… return to article

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    It’s my 52nd birthday today.  How many years has it been since Joseph McCarthy et al cut the balls of our Constitution?  Now it’s Bush et al, only Bush is just the knife-wielder.  There’s somebody secret and quiet behind Dick Cheney.  And someone secret and quiet behind that guy, too.

    United States Posted by Mitcherino on Nov 20, 2006 at 11:26 PM
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