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Act One: Climb Spree
Awhile back, San Francisco experienced a rash of burglaries that all fit a pattern.
Act Two: Psychobabble, Qu'est-ce Que C'est
There's the pretending we do as individuals, and there's the organized pretending that happens in group therapy sessions, in the roleplaying games that are done in some clinical settings.
Act Three: Secret Wiretaps From A Secret Court
For over two decades, there's been a secret court in the United States called the FISA court (short for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act).
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