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Old Sep 8, 2011 | 10:49 am
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TSA dragnets

This is a fascinating article about how the Patriot Act has been used 100x as much for drug crime than it has for terrorism. It perfectly encapsulates the mentality of TSA and their leadership on how to stretch the Patriot Act and other laws to enable the TSA to run dragnets at checkpoints.

It's only going to get worse....

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes in the New York Magazine this week about how the act is doing, 10 years later, calling it the “kitchen sink approach to national security.”
The original story is here
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