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	<title><![CDATA[What Reason Do We Have to Trust the State to Know Best?]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christopher-hitchens/what-reason-do-we-have-to_b_13985.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Although I am named in <a href="http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/23486prs20060117.html">this suit</a> in my own behalf, I am motivated to join it by concerns well beyond my own. I have been frankly appalled by the discrepant and contradictory positions taken by the Administration in this matter. First, the entire existence of the NSA's monitoring was a secret, and its very disclosure denounced as a threat to national security.</p>

<p>Then it was argued that Congress had already implicitly granted the power to conduct warrantless surveillance on...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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