What will become of us if the feds can watch our every move, hear our every conversation, learn our every expenditure, read our every email, find out what we eat, whom we love and how we live? There are well over 4,500 federal crimes. The feds can find something wrong that anyone has done. Stalin’s chief of secret police, the monster Lavrenti Beria, once famously proclaimed: “Show me the man, and I will find you the crime.” General warrants were universally condemned by colonial leaders across the ideological spectrum — from those as radical as Sam Adams to those as establishment as George Washington, and from those as individualistic as Thomas Jefferson to those as big-government as Alexander Hamilton. We know from the literature of the times that the whole purpose of the Fourth Amendment — with its requirements of individualized probable cause and specifically identifying the target — is to prohibit general warrants. Yet the FISA court has been issuing general warrants, and the NSA executing them since at least 2004. Last week, we learned in a curious colloquy between members of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and Gen. Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole that it is more likely than not that the FISA court has permitted the NSA to seize not only telephone, Internet and texting records, but also utility bills, credit card bills, banking records, social-media records and digital images of mail, and that there is no upper limit on the number of Americans’ records seized or the nature of those records.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 06:20:54 +0000
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