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

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: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:31PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Wednesday May 06 2015, @02:31PM (#179522) Journal

    > Disillusionment is too weak a word.

    Yeah, been there, felt that. Obama is America's Blair.

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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Friday May 08 2015, @12:34AM

    by mendax (2840) on Friday May 08 2015, @12:34AM (#180118)

    Obama is America's Blair.

    Well, not quite. Obama has better teeth. But both look like monkeys.

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