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If a Tea Party leader gets a call from a Koch lobbyist, that information could easily be used to discredit them. Lots of the past abuses of government power would have been just as effective with merely the data the government is collecting about us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO




As innuendo goes, that example is pretty weak sauce.




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