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[cyrano]

Glenn Greenwald gets his crankypants on about the outrage over violation of privacy.

All these privacy fetishists and (to use Joe Klein's term) "civil liberties extremists" screeching today over Sarah Palin's "privacy" need to get some sense of proportion. If Sarah Palin has nothing to hide, if she's not a Terrorist, why would she mind anyone going through her emails? And just because these things -- those things that some overly-earnest people call "statutes" or "laws" or whatever the new trendy Leftist term for them is today -- say that you can't invade people's private communications without committing a crime, does anyone other than shrill Leftists really take that seriously, really think that someone who does what the law says you can't do should get in trouble or -- more absurdly still -- be arrested? Isn't it time -- just like David Broder and so many other of our Elite Guardians have directed -- that we stop criminalizing our politics?

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Gee, given that the current Republican administration is promiscuously sniffing just about any internet traffic it can get its hands on, and further, is trying to indemnify the telcos responsible for letting it happen, I don't really think anyone in politics gets to complain about invasions of privacy.

Do you?