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What would be the practical difference between an order from a party cadre in a private firm and a national security letter?

• WarmWash 3mo ago
  A legitimate legal system with judges who have no obligation to anyone or anything besides the constitution first, and laws second.
  • inigyou 3mo ago
    Neither of them has that
    • reverius42 3mo ago
      Post-Snowden, thinking that the US national security apparatus is subordinate to judges and the Constitution is naive and uninformed.
  • edelhans 3mo ago
    And what makes you think that the US still has such a system?
    • myko 3mo ago
      True that it is collapsing which is sad but it does, in part, still function. We are the proverbial frog in the pot.