Wiretapping: a secret history
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What's the Biggest Scam in American History?
There are two main reasons why it takes so long for the law to catch up with technology. The first reason is a kind of conflict between federal law and state law the united states. Most americans, up until the late 19 sixties, didn't like wire tapping,. And that, call it aversion to wire tap authority, drives much of the politics of electronic surveillance in the United States.
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