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How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying

Photo: Courtesy of Philip Weiss Auctions  —  It began as an ordinary purse snatching.  On an early Baltimore morning in 1976, a local street thug crouched alongside his green Monte Carlo, pretending to change a flat, biding his time.

Wired David Kravets