Regardless of any appeal, the courts will never know their decision is being ignored. Nothing will change.
Now they’ll erase the records from their hard drives, but they will turn up later on a backup disk, or some DVDs, that tey ‘forgot’ to shred.
All my phone calls and messaging was thru a server in my basement which I have since wiped clean and destroyed.
WHy were the Boston Terrorists not stopped?
Why was ISIS not stopped in Texas?
Why was Hasan not caught BEFORE his murders?
The same answer is why Obama has not been caught
working with al Qaeda, the Moslem Brotherhood,
ISIS, and other Nazi organizations, and other
antiAmerican organizations -—against the American
People and the US Constitution.
The Answer is because the NSA and the Pentagon refuse
to expose the REAL dangers to America and the Constitution,
showing the utter worthlessness of their sworn Oaths.
Thank heaven there appears to be a couple of honest judges left in America!!
No broad scope public cameras should be legal.
Take note: a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has declared the NSA collection effort against American citizens is against the law.
Yeah, THAT'LL learn 'em...
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I don’t care about whether congress authorized the trampling of the bill of rights.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory comprises the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.
With 13 active and 10 senior judges, the Second Circuit is midsized among the thirteen United States courts of appeals.
Of course its illegal and unconstitutional.
Anyone who has read the constitution knew this would have to be the case if the Constitution was going to be upheld.
The people are to be secure in their persons and their belongings (including data), unless there is probable cause, and a court ordered warrant regarding specifics of a search.
The NSA is capturing everyone’s data, by default, with no probable cause and no warrant and then storing it all in massive data banks in Virginia and Utah. That data is then categorized and mined by all sorts of agencies...again, all without any probable cause or specific warrant.
Of course it is unconstitutional and therefore illegal.
I am in awe. A USG court could figure out that Soviet era spying on every electronic activity of USA citizens is against the Supreme law of the land of USA? Where did these judges come from, were they not trained in properly indoctrinated schools?
So the 2nd Circuit rules that NSA metadata collection is illegal, unconstitutional and must stop. (Which they didn't say, by the way, but let's just assume that they did.)
And the NSA says, who's going to make us stop? Certainly not some puny panel of judges. Certainly not this pusillanimous congress. And probably not even the WH - not that 0bamugabe ever would.
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Listening to Judge Napolitano, it comes down like this.
Either through stupidity or deliberate malice, Bush II misread the original provisions of the Patriot Act with respect to collection of phone and communications data, and interpreted as it allowing the government to collect that information in a massive manner from ALL Americans.
The Court here is saying that Congress needs to clarify this section of the Patriot Act through legislation.
Then, if COngress is obtuse and arrogant enough to rewrite the portion of the statute to reflect what Bush II intended, the Courts will have to review that statute to determine that it indeed violates the Constitution, which of course it does.
I have no doubt that Boehner and McConnell will give Obama authority to CONTINUE spying on ALL Americans REGARDLESS of any Constitutionally required court order until and when someobody takes them to Court AGAIN on this subject in an effort to enforce the Constitution.
This is another reason WHY we need TERM LIMITS and a COnstitutional Convention. The idiots we continue to elect to office again and again and again, have formed a class apart from the mass of the citizens and regard themselves as the sole arbiters of constitutionality, NOT the Constitution itself.
One idiot, George Bush II, has given a Monster and a traitor, Obama, a method of persecuting all American citizens who dissent with governmental policies.
Paging Hillary to wipe their servers.