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Two Minutes Hate: Choicepoint

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This is: the snooping into your phone bill is just the snout of the pig of a strange, lucrative link-up between the Administration’s Homeland Security spy network and private companies operating beyond the reach of the laws meant to protect us from our government. You can call it the privatization of the FBI — though it is better described as the creation of a private KGB.

The leader in the field of what is called “data mining,” is a company called, “ChoicePoint, Inc,” which has sucked up over a billion dollars in national security contracts.

Read “The Spies Who Shag Us,” by Greg Palast. Don’t miss the bits about who’s the number one supplier of DNA to the FBI.

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