Lincoln: The Birth of Electronic Evesdropping

Lincoln: The Birth of Electronic Evesdropping
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Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA, PRISM, and the US government's
broad surveillance tactics were shocking to many people — but maybe they
shouldn't have been. There's plenty of precedent, says David T. Z. Mindich for
the New York Times, dating all the way back to Abraham Lincoln and the Civil
War.