You still need a court order for a wiretap, just like on the phone.
There's a problem here, but it doesn't have much to do with the "kind of world" someone is trying to create. If you write in a backdoor to a programming for any purpose, it can and will be exploited by those for whom it was not intended.
Yep, electronic voting without a paper trail is pretty stupid.
That guy worked under Clinton beforehand, I wouldn't really call him in Bush's "camp". When a president moves in he doesn't fire every single person in the government, from the top down, and put in his own supporters.
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Vote Jeb Bush 2008