Before you go all Illegal Wiretaps, Poor Spitzer...

[ScreamingMeemie]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E4DA163BF937A25757C0A9629C8B63

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Mr. Spitzer wants the commission to compel communications companies to build surveillance capabilities into cellphones that use new technology, and into the new Internet-based telephone services. That puts Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat who is said to be considering a run for governor, in step with the Bush administration's Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, which have similarly asked the commission for the change.

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New York State accounts for roughly 30 percent of all the wiretaps done in the nation, Mr. Spitzer said in a filing with the commission.

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Mr. Spitzer recently joined with Gov. George E. Pataki, a Republican, in proposing new legislation that would expand the state's wiretapping powers. The proposal is opposed by some Democrats in the Assembly.

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***I posted this because I'm sick of posting it in conspiracy threads. We need to nail them ALL, Dem and Repub. Let's get down there in the dirt with the dogs that are the Republican party. Let's clean house.