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jbiasatti commented on the blog post Colombia Refuses to “Look Forward”
I think the key words here are “supreme court magistrates” and “opposition politicians.”
If Noguera had limited his activities to the little people, no one in the Columbian government would probably have bothered to go after him. If forced to respond in some fashion to the brouhaha, they might have retroactively changed the laws to make the spying legal, like a certain American Congress I could name…
Think back to Watergate. What turned Nixon’s activities into a major scandal that brought him down? He was spying on the Democrats. We’d had years of his administration spying on ordinary citizens protesting the war, but it was the revelation of the break in at DNC headquarters that blew it all up.
If Bush had wiretapped the DNC, or if Obama is caught spying on Republican leaders, you can bet there will be action to address the lawbreaking. But, spying on the little people? Not so much.
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