Chapter Thirty-Five

What’s Bugging You?

“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

—Benjamin Franklin

“Get a good night’s sleep and don’t bug anybody without asking me.”

―Richard M. Nixon, 37th U.S. President

A fresh bit of Catch 22 from the Supreme Court: Since you can never be sure if the government is secretly spying on you, you can never sue the government for spying on you. And because unless you were actually wiretapped by the government, you cannot sue to keep other citizens from being wiretapped by the government. And you can’t know if your privacy was violated by the government becau...

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