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FROM THE ARCHIVES

10 YEARS AGO June 2013

“Just as Americans do not know when the government uses secret subpoenas to look at their telephone, internet, and financial records, they do not know when the government secretly listens to their conversations or reads their email exchanges with people in other countries. Thanks to legislation that [Barack] Obama supported as a senator, the government can conduct such surveillance without a specific warrant as long as its

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