Posted on 06/08/2016 11:51:50 AM PDT by Cyberman
Yesterday we wrote about an already troubling attempt by Senator John Cornyn to attach a dangerous amendment to the Senate's ECPA reform bill that would massively expand what kinds of electronic communications the FBI has access to (as we noted, the FBI already pretends it has access to this very info, so really this law would be papering over the FBI's illegal collection of this info). But there's another amendment, put forth by Senator Jeff Sessions, that is just as, if not more, troubling. It's basically creating a massive loophole in the 4th Amendment, saying that any and all basic oversight can be tossed out the second the FBI declares the situation to be an "emergency."...
As we've discussed, back in April the House voted unanimously to fix ECPA. And while the Senate has dragged its feet until now, it's disappointing to see Senators like Sessions and Cornyn now try to attach dangerous amendments to ECPA reform that basically destroy whatever good that is in there. Both of those Senators should be ashamed...
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You are thinking small. This isn’t for one crime, to search one house. This is a bomb goes off in Boston, so we seal the city, and search every house without a warrant, we seize any electronics we want,,,etc etc...
I’m not ready to knee jerk over something “Techdirt” claims.
Maybe you should “Clam down”. It does not need a judge. Under the illegal “National Security Letter” authority they do not involve a judge. And everyone is threatened to keep it secret.
Furthermore if the sparrow generously farts and they decide to get a warrant. It is in a secret FISA court.
The fact is that all this secrecy is indeed diametrically opposed to everything that was America. Widespread surveillance, secret courts enforcing secret law. It’s crap no matter how you spin it.
This isn’t a judgment call. Either Cornhole and Session introduced those amendments, or they didn’t.
Right. All you have to say is “get a warrant”, anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows that.
Sure it’s a judgement call. All of these things are open to interpretation. There was no Internet when the 4th was signed in.
B U M P
Exactly, or Stephen Hawking for that matter.
Sessions has a good reason to support this. Hopefully we will learn what it is in due time. I trust Sessions.
An emergency declared by President Jimmy Carter on the 10th day of the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 remains in effect almost 35 years later.
The first thing every incoming president does is renew a bunch of "state of emergency" declarations, which provide the continuing authority for much of governmental power.
The language in the Bill of Rights was written clear enough
for the common man to understand.
Maybe that is the problem.
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to the casual observer. The problem is pretty simple though. Texas went from being a one-party democrat state to being a one-party republican state. All the most opportunist democrats with money behind them promptly switched parties when it behooved them to do so.
Perry was once a democrat.
Once it became clear that he couldn't get elected dog-catcher with a "D" beside his name, he did the principled thing, and switched parties. I do not believe there is a single office holder elected state-wide in Texas currently held by a democrat, and that's been true for a while.
Yeah, you have GibsMeDat areas around Houston, Dallas, and Austin (and the parts of south texas that have been absorbed by the encroaching mexican kleptocracy where folks can be elected to an office by regional voters, but if you have to go before the whole state, you have to run as a(n) alleged "republican".
As such, you can't trust a Texas politician farther than you can spit them generally. There are exceptions, but they are pretty few and far between. We had to really raise some serious hell to get concealed carry passed, and open carry was every bit as difficult. It wil be at least 3 years before we can even get the legislooters to even consider constitutional carry, and I doubt it will pass because the legislature is filled with democrats with both "R" and "D" by their names.
I'll bet that when some goofy liberal says that only black-poweder muzzle-loaders should be allowed because that's what guns were like when the Second Amendment was written, you nod like a spring-loaded bobble-head.
Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop. Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying: "If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right." And from then on he adopted the maxim, "Napoleon is always right," in addition to his private motto of "I will work harder."
Demoplican ...
They're both the socialist party.
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