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on Wednesday May 06 2015, @08:25AM
from the for-very-large-values-of-unreasonable dept.
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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Homeland Security Chief: Fourth Amendment is 'Beyond My Competence'
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @05:11PM
The pro-freedom side seeks to maximize freedom, so we can only gain from that. The other side, however, seeks to impose mass unconstitutional surveillance upon us and infringe upon our liberties in many other ways. I think it's clear which has the moral high ground here, between the two.
(Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Thursday May 07 2015, @07:55PM
It's really easy to say that but the security versus freedom trade off does exist. Just look at all of the situations where after a dictatorship has toppled, horrible ethnic violence breaks out. I can't tell people in those countries what they should do.
We're more fortunate here, but the much milder trade off between fear of threats and freedom exists. You can say people are irrational to be afraid, and you may be right, but part of a democracy is that you can't tell other people how to feel. You have to find a way to live with them even if you can't stand their opinions.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.