Posted on 06/09/2013 8:34:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday said he would examine ways to block the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs before the Supreme Court.
“I'm going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,” vowed Paul on “Fox News Sunday.”
“I’m going to be asking all the internet providers and all of the phone companies: Ask your customers to join me in a class action lawsuit. If we get 10 million Americans saying we don’t want our phone records looked at then maybe someone will wake up and something will change in Washington,” he said.
A report in the Guardian last week revealed that the NSA had sought information on phone numbers, and the location and duration of calls to help identify potential terror threats. A separate program, PRISM, sought information on foreign Internet users from American tech companies.
The disclosures unleashed a firestorm of criticism at the Obama administration’s record on civil liberties, coming weeks after news that the Justice Department had seized reporter records in leak investigation and after the Internal Revenue Service admitted targeting Tea Party groups....
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Standing.
A republic is a system of governance characterized by the rule of Law.
If we don’t fight, we lose.
Make the Übertermites openly defend their subversion of America.
>> All the Patriot Act did was make their ongoing data collection activities legal.
More like the recognition of legitimacy necessary for prosecution. But whatever preceded the visibility wasn’t necessarily illegal but probably not admissible.
I'm with you. I see the same thing. Just like his Dad he can pontificate clearly what's WRONG but I haven't seen much in the way of doing anything to CHANGE or FIX it.
GO, RAND, GO! THIS SENATOR IS DOING SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE! SUPPORT HIM AND BACK HIM. Enough talk..more action. We must support those politicians like Rand and Ted Cruz and a few others.
I used to collect foreign voice messages for the U.S.Navy. Any decryption was performed at NSA. We were forbidden - BY LAW - from listening or copying any telephone or radio messages that involved Americans. To do so was punishable by Courts Martial.
I served between 1980 - 1986.
Don’t be so paranoid, Agnes.
This just dovetails right into the other scandals and Obamacare...many thought Judge Roberts was intimidated to rule for Obamacare.
Because nobody ever breaks the law.
Because you were a peon, they weren’t going to trust you with that.
Because those *other* alphabet agencies are so law abiding. Like the EPA, FBI, DOJ, IRS. I’m sure they’re all so law abiding a quarter of a century later.
BTW, the patriot act changed the ROE’s to allow them to listen in on Americans. It’s why the NSA has gigantic facilities and is building out even more.
This kind of database and information is a despots dream come true. Instant dictatorship, just add despot. We might just have that despot now. If not this one, certainly one on the way. It’s inevitable some human will avail themselves of this power and control.
Rand can be a putz, but this time, he’s 100% on target. GO RAND GO!
EXACTLY! They will rule it is legal just like Omamacare and then where will we be?
Where will we be?
One hundred percent aware that we have fully become the Soviet Union in all regards.
That is useful information.
I believe you.
But that was then.
This is now.
Holder was asked specifically about snooping on Congress. In his answer, he added the Supreme Court. The proverbial Freudian slip..
You do realize that was over 27 years ago, almost three decades ago.
I can support this suet. Of course to many here on FR questioning the need for the blanket wire taps is viewed as treason and worthy of death, but so be it.
I was told if one had a PhD in a STEM field your file was at least 1” thick.
Wonder how they manage that now that most STEM PhD’s are chicoms and middle easterners.
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- When you compose and send an email just make sure you “CC” a few really whacko radical leftie politicians in Congress
Then “BCC” your actual intended recipients
Spread the wealth.
Let the IRS and NSA figure that out
Compose your emails in the FR /s style
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Ted Cruz has said something about the NSA scandal. Internet search engines are your friends if you care to find out what he said.
given the recent history of the court’s deference to the executive, this seems like a fools errand. A necessary one but almost a an exercise in futility. Who knows, maybe we will be surprised.
yup either Roberts is a closet bone smuggler....or there was some ‘problems’ with his foreign adopted children.
Either way the regime has him by the short hairs(perhaps he likes that) and he needs to resign......once the current regime is out of office.
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