..wasn't even mentioned in our local newspapers here in NB.

On wednesday, two bills were defeated in the US Congress.

One would have severely limited powers that Obama has assumed to spy on americans (and everybody else.

With that done, any president is not free to let his army of a hundred thousand dmoestic spies to use this material against political eneimies, against protest groups, against political opponents, and worse. With the already existing imprisonment without charge or trial, the American population will, in effect, have no personal liberty at all.