08-25-2006, 03:21 PM
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Pixie's Resident Reptile
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Central MD, USA
Posts: 21,196
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Originally Posted by jseal
Well, perhaps. Here is what you wrote.
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Exactly-what I wrote was "If you believe the US government does not engage in illegal wiretappiig without a warrant, one is delusional".
That has nothing to do with whether or not one agrees with me: thus, to say that I said it does is a gross mischaracterization of what I said.
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Originally Posted by jseal
I was thinking perhaps that we might graph the value of the number unwarranted searches and wiretaps (the bad count) divided by the number of searches and wiretaps which had previously been approved by a federal judge (the good count) over time. If the results showed a positive trend line then we could conclude that you concerns were justified. If the trend line was flat or negative, then we could conclude that the situation was, if nothing else, less worrisome than might appear if one’s only source of information was a nearby newspaper.
To really get the goods on the current administration, what would be ideal would be to start the graph in 1997. That way, if there is a change in the slope of the graph from flat or negative to positive starting in 2000 (or thereabouts) and continuing to date, you would have a very strong indication indeed that the problem exists, and that it is unambiguously associated in time with the current occupants of the White House.
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This course of action as outlined would be a useful experiment indeed. Hm, does either of us have the time and resources to devote to such a project? (Not just a rhetorical question).
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