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	<title><![CDATA[How Close Are We to the End of Democracy?]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martin-garbus/how-close-are-we-to-the-e_b_14171.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>We have today seen President Bush's legal defense for the surveillance program. There is, he tells us, an unparalled crisis.<br />
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It reminds me of the United States Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, stating they had to interfere with the election and overrule the Florida Supreme Court because we were in a national crisis -- we couldn't have a president elected at the appropriate time and place. There was then a democracy with the Constitution telling us exactly...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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