During the past three weeks, Congress passed and President Donald
Trump signed into law vast new powers for the NSA and the FBI to spy on
innocent Americans and selectively to pass on to law enforcement the
fruits of that spying.
Those fruits can now lawfully include all fiber-optic data transmitted to or in the United States, such as digital recordings of all landline and mobile telephone calls and copies in real time of all text messages and emails and banking, medical and legal records electronically stored or transmitted.
All this bulk surveillance had come about because the National Security Agency convinced federal judges meeting in secret that they should authorize it. Now Congress and the president have made it the law of the land.
This enactment came about notwithstanding the guarantee of the right to privacy -- the right to be left alone -- articulated in the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and elsewhere. Though the surveillance expansion passed the Senate by just one vote, it apparently marks a public policy determination that the Constitution can be ignored or evaded by majority consent whenever it poses an obstacle to the government's purposes.
https://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2018/01/25/a-conspiracy-of-silence-assaults-privacy-n2439006?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Those fruits can now lawfully include all fiber-optic data transmitted to or in the United States, such as digital recordings of all landline and mobile telephone calls and copies in real time of all text messages and emails and banking, medical and legal records electronically stored or transmitted.
All this bulk surveillance had come about because the National Security Agency convinced federal judges meeting in secret that they should authorize it. Now Congress and the president have made it the law of the land.
This enactment came about notwithstanding the guarantee of the right to privacy -- the right to be left alone -- articulated in the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and elsewhere. Though the surveillance expansion passed the Senate by just one vote, it apparently marks a public policy determination that the Constitution can be ignored or evaded by majority consent whenever it poses an obstacle to the government's purposes.
https://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2018/01/25/a-conspiracy-of-silence-assaults-privacy-n2439006?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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