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by wutbrodo 4400 days ago
Warrantless wiretapping was going on starting in 2002.

> you'll sound like a conspiracy nut

Yea I agree, for periods before 2002 it's a lot harder to explain "this assumption seems entirely consistent with the way they've always acted over decades of history" than it is to say "of course they'd do this, here's proof of the last time they did it".