Monday, July 27, 2009

Illegal, and Pointless

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/opinion/17fri1.html?scp=1&sq=illegal%20and%20pointless&st=cse
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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Subject: re: Illegal, and Pointless
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
If our representative democracy is to be more than a fig leaf, we the
people must know what it is that our public servants do and have done
in our name. This requires full and timely disclosure not only of the
crimes alleged, but of their coverup. We might start with asking why
the U.S. electorate went to the polls in 2004 in ignorance of a
warrantless wiretapping program that had been ongoing for three in
violation of both our Constitution and statute. This paper knew of the
wiretapping before the election. Did not the electorate have the right
to this information before voting?
Barry Levine

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