Is privacy dead in America? What could be more obvious? To paraphrase the great screenwriter-director Preston Sturges, “It’s not only dead, it’s decomposed.” (Sturges was referring to “chivalry.”) James Branford published his “The Puzzle Palace” back in 1982, detailing the National Security Agency’s spying capabilities. They were extensive even then. Now, if we are to believe Edward Snowden—and who wouldn’t—they are virtually pervasive. The term “unmasking”—revealing, quite often illegally, the identity of American citizens communicating with foreigners under investigation—became commonplace recently through the behavior of such Obama (and now Biden) appointees as Samantha Power who unmasked nearly 300 people, “without any concrete explanation of why she needed this information,” according to a Wall Street Journal editorial. These “unmaskings,” as I noted, are against the law, and for good reason, but don’t expect anyone to be prosecuted for them, especially now under Garland’s DOJ. Selective prosecution rules the day as never …
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