before CALEA

[Major Variola (ret.)]

"Once, our national office in Washington called the phone company to say
they couldn't pay the bill," said Bill Crandell, a writer who lives in
Silver Spring, Md. "They were told, 'Don't worry, it's being paid.'

It was Nixon's spooks paying the phone bill for Kerry's antiwar group.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-kerryfbi22mar22,1,5152259.story?coll=la-home-politics

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Meanwhile he realizes that the only reason he was
over there in the first place was so we could
install a government that would sell us oil at a
good price. And of course the oil companies use
the little skirmish to scare up oil prices. It's
a cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it
ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon.

Good Will Hunting