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CoolHand
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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Max told his friend that he'd just as soon not go hiking in the hills.
Said he, "I'm an anti-climb Max."
[So is that punchline.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @05:19PM
"president who halted our slide into fascism...or who did nothing while we slid..."
Our leaders are not innocent bystanders in the move to racism, they are the cause. We have a name for a racist leader, that name is dictator.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @05:21PM
Darn autocorrect. That was supposed to say facism not racism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 06 2015, @07:09PM
It's fascism.