[PaleoBob]

Disloyal to his security clearance? In the face of gross disregard for the Constitutional system of government?

Good God, do you not realize how asinine that sounds?

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You cite the constitution with no reference to the fact that reasonable searches are allowed under the 4th amendment. Constuctivists don’t usually edit or strike passages of the text.

To date, we have little distinction between a DB of phone company metadata and a phone book. You wouldn’t prevent the cops from using a phone book, or would you?

[abb]

A phone book don’t record who you call, how often, and the length of the conversation, like the Feds do.

[MRadtke]

"You cite the constitution with no reference to the fact that reasonable searches are allowed under the 4th amendment. Constuctivists don’t usually edit or strike passages of the text.

To date, we have little distinction between a DB of phone company metadata and a phone book. You wouldn’t prevent the cops from using a phone book, or would you?" Well the phone book doesn't cross reference all the numbers that are connected with any other number, or the time of call, or the duration of call, does it? Or who knows what all else?