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May 15, 2006 • 10:47 am PDT
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If this is true, we're really all in trouble. Using their new, shiny list of every number every person has ever called in the history of telephonic communication, the government is starting to track down freedom-hating whistleblowers who squeal to the press about programs that save American from terrorists. Which is just about what they meant when they insisted they only used the numbers to find terrorists.

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