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What if Secrecy Trumps the Constitution?
Townhall.com ^ | April 3, 2014 | Judge Andrew Napolitano

Posted on 04/03/2014 3:27:21 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/03/2014 3:27:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

How would we know?


2 posted on 04/03/2014 3:33:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Kaslin

What if...the judge were to run for office?


3 posted on 04/03/2014 3:34:02 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Kaslin

If the government feels it needs to bypass the Constitution as the only way to protect Americans, then we need to amend the Constitution. I doubt they’re spying on us for our protection, however, which is why the legal course of action probably wouldn’t work.


4 posted on 04/03/2014 3:34:27 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Kaslin

Not rhetorical questions; he is all over it!


5 posted on 04/03/2014 3:34:55 PM PDT by frog in a pot (We are all "frogs in a pot" now. How and when will we real Americans jump out?)
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To: Kaslin

These secret courts failed us, the administration not only failed us but lied to us and the NSA lied and lied and lied.

Who ever was involved with the lies should be accountable and spend a mimimum of 20 years in jail.


6 posted on 04/03/2014 3:41:22 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Kaslin

What if we treated every single government employee that willfully violates the Constitution like the traitor that they are and hang them?


7 posted on 04/03/2014 3:42:09 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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What if one of the secrets collected by the president’s spies concerned the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

What if the Chief Justice issued a pivotal opinion upholding a totalitarian power grab that was the biggest initiative of the president’s term in office, in a nonsensical opinion that was contrary to the Chief Justice’s jurisprudential philosophy?


8 posted on 04/03/2014 3:46:17 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Kaslin
"What do we do about it?"

Fill out Brackets

9 posted on 04/03/2014 3:47:09 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: frog in a pot

Before you post a reply make sure you read first what you typed before you hit the post button


10 posted on 04/03/2014 3:48:34 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
The Constitution is clear. The federal government has to get a authorization to spy on an individual. The idea that they can circumvent the Constitution is the reason that Snowden stuck his neck out and made some noise about the fact that NSA was violating the Constitution. Now the Obama administration is going gangbusters to nail him to the wall. He is an American hero and the administration is evil. They were doing something wrong. They didn't want to be caught. They were. Now the effort is to demean him.
Look at what they are doing. Come down on them. Snowden did nothing wrong. He is actually a hero. Start standing up for him. Clamor for the government to stop the spying on everyday citizens. Start compelling them to do their job and start spying on slugs exclusively. Tell them to stop being salacious and start doing what the government is paying them for.
11 posted on 04/03/2014 3:51:56 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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This objection seems to be based upon the privacy fraud. NSA is looking but not seizing. The true basis of Search and Seizure is the protection of property not some left wing legal construct designed, among other things, to prevent checking into a given persons antecedents. The aforementioned being said I admit I don’t like the spying any better than the next guy, but I still ask what have I really given up by NSA spying and learning the contents of a recipe I sent my sister.?


12 posted on 04/03/2014 3:55:45 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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TO THE TOP

Thanks again, Kas,


13 posted on 04/03/2014 3:56:51 PM PDT by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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TO THE TOP

Thanks again, Kas,


14 posted on 04/03/2014 3:57:19 PM PDT by kitkat (STORM THE HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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Thanks


15 posted on 04/03/2014 3:58:40 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Very well said


16 posted on 04/03/2014 3:59:25 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

There is supposed to be an oversight committee to monitor and stop acts of these agencies from infringing on the rights of American citizens. But, as is typical, such power corrupts.


17 posted on 04/03/2014 4:11:08 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

“..,.The Constitution is clear...”
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Apparently not.


18 posted on 04/03/2014 4:26:32 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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Congress began to happily assign its Article I powers to administrative agencies during the FDR era.

Perhaps thirty years ago, oversight of these agencies began to wane.

Now, the heads of agencies publicly flip off congress.

If You Think Presidential Elections Matter

19 posted on 04/03/2014 4:26:56 PM PDT by Jacquerie ( Article V.)
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No doubt NSA data is already being used for extortion.

Anything the government has that can be abused will be.

As apathy on the subject grown the abuse will become more and more bold.

It’s not a stretch by any means to anticipate the NSA database may at sometime in the future be used to establish and maintain a rigid caste system.

Maybe you won’t get accepted to that college...or get that permit...or that profession license...or that medical procedure. Hey...or maybe it will be taken out on your children.

Maybe Obama will leave the White House with a suitcase full of hard drive. It was said that the Clintons left office with 1,500 FBI files -that’s child’s play. What if Obama leaves office with that suitcase full of hard drive totaling something like 200 terabytes. Just the nitty gritty on say the 300,000 most prominent conservatives in the US. What will that be worth to Obama-&-Obama Consulting? What would the NSA files be worth for most every opposition campaign contributor AND potential candidate.

If they can abuse it they will. This is the point of no return.


20 posted on 04/03/2014 4:27:28 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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