Electronic Frontier Foundation — EFF Documents Detail Pentagon Demands for Financial Records:
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Post title: EFF Documents Detail Pentagon Demands for Financial Records
Authored by: krisnelson
Date posted: Oct 16, 2007
Categorized as: law • search and seizure
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