Warning: Mild foul language within.

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This is quite the post by Flopping Aces on NSA wiretapping.

He points out an:

excellent article written by Phillip Bobbitt, Columbia Law School professor and a former member of the Clinton Administration from 98-99, on the NSA Wiretapping

Phillip writes:

“Warrants, which originate in the criminal justice paradigm, provide a useful standard for surveillance designed to prove guilt, not to learn the identity of people who may be planning atrocities.

For the tommy’s of the world who act like legal experts, Phillip writes this also:

there are many instances in which warrantless surveillance has been held to be permissible under the Fourth Amendment. Searches in public schools require neither warrants nor a showing of probable cause. Government offices can be searched for evidence of work-related misconduct without warrants. So can searches conducted at the border, or searches undertaken as a condition of parole. Searches have been upheld in the absence of a warrant where there is no legitimate expectation of privacy. The Clinton administration conducted a warrantless search — lawfully — when it was trying to determine what the spy Aldrich Ames was up to. The day after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt authorized the interception of all communications traffic into and out of the United States.”

Flopping Aces nails it with this commentary:

It still amazes me that people who witnesses 9/11, who were aghast at the intelligence mistakes that lead up to 9/11, and who were calling for more and better intelligence years ago are now the very same people who vilify the NSA Wiretapping Program.

My commentary:
I, Baklava, think it is just aiding the enemy during a time of war for Democrats in Congress to act like the terrorist surveillance is unlawful and spread that propaganda to the public during a time of war. I’m STUNNED that this article by Phillip was in the New York Times and I’m thinking that it should be referred to for a complete hour by Congressional Republicans each time a Democrat opens his/her mouth with the propaganda. The article is very thorough with past precedence and a review of what the 4th amendment says and means.

Darn those Christian kids, expecting they can assemble and associate like the chess club or the Anime Club.

What were they thinking?  Were they expecting some constitutional protection or something?

Leave it to the 9th Circuit Circus Cou…

Jack McClellan leaving California

Keep an eye out to see where this low life turns up.

My favorite part:

“I have to leave the state, really, I can’t live here under this Orwellian protocol,” he told KABC-TV. “It’s nightmarish.”

Yeah, Jack, it’s really gotta suck when judges tell you stay away from places where little girls are because you brag about how you like to have sex with them. Poor guy.

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