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That's no ad hom attack at all. The Nazis DID say that, if you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. And here you are, saying the same thing.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday charging that the telephone call-tracking system disclosed via a leak last week violates the Constitution.
The suit, claiming First and Fourth Amendment violations, seeks to leverage the top-secret document leaked last week in order to overcome procedural arguments that defeated an earlier ACLU-backed challenge to government surveillance of telephone communications.
"The practice is akin to snatching every American’s address book—with annotations detailing whom we spoke to, when we talked, for how long, and from where. It gives the government a comprehensive record of our associations and public movements, revealing a wealth of detail about our familial, political, professional, religious, and intimate associations," the ACLU lawsuit says.
The legal complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, names as defendants Director of of National Intelligence James Clapper, Attorney General Eric Holder, NSA Director Keith Alexander, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (since NSA is technically part of the Defense Department) and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Spokespeople for the NSA and the Justice Department had no immediate comment.
As National Security Agency revelations exploded in the media, a Tumblr called “Obama is Checking Your Emails” that spoofs the surveillance went viral.
The meme, which posted it’s first entry on Sunday, is simple - just photos of President Barack Obama looking over people’s shoulders at their computers or phones.
The most popular post depicts a young girl leaning back as Obama reads a computer over her shoulder.
Another popular post shows Obama and some of his top advisers, including Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod, laughing as they all look at a computer.
General Keith Alexander, chief of both the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, met with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee for a briefing about the programs used to amass widespread phone records and online activity. The full Senate will meet with Alexander on Thursday.
During a March 2012 congressional hearing, NSA Director Keith Alexander told Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson - 14 times - that his agency wasn't engaged in collecting the kind of domestic digital data that has now become the subject of embarrassing disclosures.
From the DNI:Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily
Seriously, spin that, Obama fans.
There's a good answer
Very paranoid, and it ignores that the NSA needs a federal judge to look at the metadata anyway.
Since the question at hand is whether the NSA has constitutional authority to even collect the meta data it seems a weak defense to say that there are legal barriers to accessing the data that they have gathered. They've already crashed through a few barriers in the process of gathering the data.
It would appear that federal judges disagree, wouldn't it?
That's kinda the funny part about all this: people don't just have reservations, they're INSISTING that these operations are illegal. Like INSISTING. Yet it seems real legal minds minds disagree. Hmmm.
If judges were infallible there would be no need for a Supreme Court... and if the Supreme Court were infallible there would be no need to overturn legal precedence.
Do you make it a habit of agreeing with all legal rulings? What are your views on the "Citizens United" ruling?
It would appear that federal judges disagree, wouldn't it?
That's kinda the funny part about all this: people don't just have reservations, they're INSISTING that these operations are illegal. Like INSISTING. Yet it seems real legal minds minds disagree. Hmmm.
Ah, so it could potentially be found illegal later? Quite different from your original phrasing.
I usually do, as I have no law degree myself.
lol what?So what? They work for us.
No, it would be found to have always been unconstitutional as a FISA judge apparently found with this NSA data collection
Not one to question authority, eh?
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