Friday, January 16, 2009

Undermining the Fourth Amendment

The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constituion states,

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I think I’m feeling less secure.

In a major August 2008 decision released yesterday in redacted form, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, the FISA appellate panel, affirmed the government’s Constitutional authority to collect national-security intelligence without judicial approval. The case was not made public before yesterday, and its details remain classified. An unnamed telecom company refused to comply with the National Security Agency’s monitoring requests and claimed the program violated the Fourth Amendment’s restrictions on search and seizure.

The above, was gleaned from the Wall Street Journal, and their headline to this news reads The Wiretap Vindication.

I don’t fear terrorists, but I am beginning to fear the United States government more and more.

Google News currently lists 284 articles regarding the fact that warrantless wiretapping is now court ordered legal.

Posted by John Venlet on 01/16 at 03:10 PM
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