red scare
- n a period of general fear of communists
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- Column: Palmer Raids Redux: The NSA versus civil liberties
By Jeffrey Rosen (Reuters) - During the "Red Scare" that swept the United States in the wake of Russia's 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the Justice Department launched a cycle of raids against radicals and leftists. The U.S. attorney general, a once-celebrated Progressive leader named A. Mitchell Palmer, gave his name to this unfolding series of attacks against civil liberties. Though initially ...
June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - Palmer Raids Redux: The NSA v civil liberties
By Jeffrey Rosen (Reuters) - During the "Red Scare" that swept the United States in the wake of Russia's 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the Justice Department launched a cycle of raids against radicals and leftists. The U.S. attorney general, a once-celebrated Progressive leader named A. Mitchell Palmer, gave his name to this unfolding series of attacks against civil liberties. Though initially ...
June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News