KarlMarx
12-16-2013, 06:21 PM
A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency program which collects information on nearly all telephone calls made to, from or within the United States is likely unconstitutional.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found that the program appears to violate the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. He also said the Justice Department had failed to demonstrate that collecting the information had helped to head off terrorist attacks.
Acting on a lawsuit brought by conservative legal activist Larry Klayman, Leon issued a preliminary injunction barring the NSA from collecting so-called metadata pertaining to the Verizon accounts of Klayman and one of his clients. However, the judge stayed the order to allow for an appeal...
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/national-security-agency-phones-judge-101203.html
This one should be filed under "Ya think?????". It doesn't take a constitutional scholar to figure out that NSA spying on American citizens without a warrant is a violation of the "unreasonable search and seizure" clause of the 4th Amendment.
And while all of this was going on, the Left, who was working itself up into a lather over the Bush warantless wiretaps on suspected foreign agents (which IS constitutional), said virtually NOTHING at all about this and instead defended this program.
But then why should anyone be surprised?
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon found that the program appears to violate the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. He also said the Justice Department had failed to demonstrate that collecting the information had helped to head off terrorist attacks.
Acting on a lawsuit brought by conservative legal activist Larry Klayman, Leon issued a preliminary injunction barring the NSA from collecting so-called metadata pertaining to the Verizon accounts of Klayman and one of his clients. However, the judge stayed the order to allow for an appeal...
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/national-security-agency-phones-judge-101203.html
This one should be filed under "Ya think?????". It doesn't take a constitutional scholar to figure out that NSA spying on American citizens without a warrant is a violation of the "unreasonable search and seizure" clause of the 4th Amendment.
And while all of this was going on, the Left, who was working itself up into a lather over the Bush warantless wiretaps on suspected foreign agents (which IS constitutional), said virtually NOTHING at all about this and instead defended this program.
But then why should anyone be surprised?