"Nobody has been able to demonstrate that the Homeland Security Administration doesn't tap the phones of US citizens. Therefore probably it does " commits the fallacy of

A) hasty generalization B) weak analogy C) false cause D) appeal to ignorance E) appeal to unqualified authority


D

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