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Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence'

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the for-very-large-values-of-unreasonable dept.

Fauxlosopher writes:

When the United States Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson was asked, "do you believe the government has the right to bulk collection of records from millions of individuals without a warrant", his response was that the question was "beyond my competence as secretary of homeland security" to answer.

The original article touches on some important details and raises key criticisms of the slipshod method currently used to obtain communications records for millions of people from US phone companies in violation of the spirit, if not letter, of the US Constitution's Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable government searches and seizures.

Source video for quotes and context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_auHdE89qQ

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @01:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @01:32PM (#179487)

    > History will long remember the president who halted our slide into fascism

    Not it won't. Stopping things from getting worse is not a recipe for fame.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by inertnet on Wednesday May 06 2015, @05:01PM

    by inertnet (4071) on Wednesday May 06 2015, @05:01PM (#179581) Journal

    > or who did nothing while we slid

    Neither, history will just be adapted. According to the manual: 1984.