Posted on 12/15/2015 9:24:55 PM PST by Isara
What data do you think NSA has been collecting?
What difference does it make if it means we are no longer secure in our persons or possessions? The Constitution should not only be the foundational document of the republic when it is convenient.
Excuse me, I didn’t realize you were a hysterical person.
Stated it as well as anyone I've ever seen. You're exactly spot-on which is why the minutia arguments ('dancing on the head of a pin') which often don't make a damn' bit of difference just infuriate me, and I suspect so many others.
Now in this specific case Cruz is exactly right, but even then the whole point about needing a court order to get access to the records held by the telco's is really moot itself: FISA courts approve EVERY DAMN' WARRANT no matter what. They're a rubber stamp! That's not a check and balance on power and the FISA courts do NOTHING to protect the American people from what is increasingly/has become a tyrannical government against its own people!
Yet no one talks about that point. Infuriating.
Your comment is not worthy of response.
They called it the FREEDOM Act?
I’d never trust any bill named like that, learned that lesson after 9/11.
Surveillance is already everywhere as is. FISA Court should just be renamed Star Chamber because they never sent the state any time.
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