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Flashback: Ridge Offered to Take Lie Detector Test to Prove 'Politics Played No Part' In Threat Levels

Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Politics. August 21, 2009.

"Wire me up," Mr. Ridge said, according to a book by New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau. "Not a chance."

Revealed: Spying Abuses 'Systemic' In Recent Months -- Which Is Exactly What the 2008 FISA Law Was Designed to Do

Glenn Greenwald, Salon. April 16, 2009.

New reports about NSA spying are the inevitable result of last year's FISA-gutting law, which the Democrats supported.

Obama's Top Law Enforcer Is Preoccupied with Bush's War on Terror

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. January 16, 2009.

In his confirmation hearing, Holder called waterboarding "torture," but his support for preventive detention and warrantless spying is bad news.

Congress, Step Up and Start Defending the Constitution

Art Brodsky, Huffington Post. June 25, 2008.

The Democrats' capitulation on FISA is a triumph of Congressional self-importance over the guardianship of our Constitutional rights.

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