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by munin 3787 days ago
> In 1929, the Republican (!) Secretary of State rolled up all the old World War I spying operations saying "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail". How far the US has fallen in freedom from the day Stimson uttered those words a century ago.

He also turned it all back on, to 11, as the secretary of war, once stuff heated up in Europe.