• Government surveillance programs apparently are not just for spying.
• Regional "fusion centers" administered by the Department of Homeland Security appear to use surveillance as a pretext...
...for psychological harassment, control over individual telecommunications accounts... and prior restraint and/or censorship of political speech and personal internet telecommunications.
• ACLU: Sue the government on THESE grounds -- which cannot be excused under any reasonable interpretation of the Patriot Act.
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS BY VIC LIVINGSTON
Columnist, NowPublic.com/scrivener; former investigative/business reporter, NY Daily News, Phila. Bulletin, St. Petersburg (FL) Times; former editor, CableVision and TV/Radio Age magazines
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