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medeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 12:23 AM
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Homeland Security Opens Private Mail
damn those retired history professors...you can't trust them:

http://g.msn.com/0MN2ET7/2?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10740935/from/ET/&&CM=EmailThis&CE=1
WASHINGTON - In the 50 years that Grant Goodman has known and corresponded with a colleague in the Philippines he never had any reason to suspect that their friendship was anything but spectacularly ordinary.

But now he believes that the relationship has somehow sparked the interest of the Department of Homeland Security and led the agency to place him under surveillance.

Last month Goodman, an 81-year-old retired University of Kansas history professor, received a letter from his friend in the Philippines that had been opened and resealed with a strip of dark green tape bearing the words “by Border Protection” and carrying the official Homeland Security seal.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 12:26 AM
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1. sheesh, they STILL haven't learned how to open, read and reseal
without leaving a trace? They were this stupid back when they were infiltrating and spying on the women's movement, and the various anti-war and civil rights groups. I can see it is a VERY steep learning curve.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 01:08 AM
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2. They do this on purpose
to intimidate people.
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 02:01 AM
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3. you are right--and I was going to add that point on edit, but got
distracted.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 11:12 AM
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4. Kick
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