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19 January, 2006

Google Subpoena

Ok, I am NOT happy with the government's actions here. They should not have broad powers to grab data. That is overreaching in my mind. I think they should lose this case. Absent probable cause, they should not be able to broadly grab on-line data.

One important side note here. The headlines keep painting this as the "Bush Justice Department" and implicitly infer that it is all Bush's fault.

This law was signed and placed on the books by Clinton in 1998. It was struck down by the Supremes in 2004. These details are buried 'waaaay down in the story. Clinton is, of course, never blamed.