It looks as though Mitchell Palmer is one of Attorney General Holder's heroes. Palmer was the AG who was determined to rid this country of anarchists (as he defined them) in the early 1920s. History does not look favorably on Palmer's efforts, which, like those of McCarthy in the 1950s, identified those who thought differently as enemies of the state who should be silenced.
Attorney General Holder has decided that the government can keep private information on American citizens for up to five years whether or not that citizen is suspected of being a terrorist. Holder felt that the 180 day period in the original guidelines of the National Counterterrorism Center were inadequate as the number of American citizens practicing terrorism has increase geometrically. And we must be protected by those by who know what is best for us.
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