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"Electronic surveillance was once a specialized intelligence-gathering tool that provoked fascination and protest. Now it is a mundane fact of our consumer world. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies and scandal mongers, police and presidents, businessmen and filmmakers who made wiretapping a defining technology of American history"-- Provided by publisher.
10) Cheney's law
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"For three decades, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged a secretive and often bitter battle to expand the power of the presidency. Now in a direct confrontation with Congress, as the administration asserts executive privilege to head off investigations into domestic wiretapping and the firing of U.S. attorneys, FRONTLINE meticulously traces the behind-closed-doors battle within the administration over the power of the presidency and the rule of law"--Container....