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Chris Matthews: Obama Has Literally Never Done Anything Wrong
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Government lawyers are trying to keep buried a classified court finding that a domestic spying program was unconstitutional government action.
In the midst of revelations that the government has conducted extensive top-secret surveillance operations to collect domestic phone records and internet communications, the Justice Department was due to file a court motion Friday in its effort to keep secret an 86-page court opinion that determined that the government had violated the spirit of federal surveillance laws and engaged in unconstitutional spying.This important case—all the more relevant in the wake of this week's disclosures—was triggered after Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate intelligence committee, started crying foul in 2011 about US government snooping. As a member of the intelligence committee, he had learned about domestic surveillance activity affecting American citizens that he believed was improper. He and Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), another intelligence committee member, raised only vague warnings about this data collection, because they could not reveal the details of the classified program that concerned them. But in July 2012, Wyden was able to get the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify two statements that he wanted to issue publicly. They were:
* On at least one occasion the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held that some collection carried out pursuant to the Section 702 minimization procedures used by the government was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
* I believe that the government's implementation of Section 702 of FISA [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] has sometimes circumvented the spirit of the law, and on at least one occasion the FISA Court has reached this same conclusion.
For those who follow the secret and often complex world of high-tech government spying, this was an aha moment. The FISA court Wyden referred to oversees the surveillance programs run by the government, authorizing requests for various surveillance activities related to national security, and it does this behind a thick cloak of secrecy. Wyden's statements led to an obvious conclusion: He had seen a secret FISA court opinion that ruled that one surveillance program was unconstitutional and violated the spirit of the law. But, yet again, Wyden could not publicly identify this program.
"When the government hides court opinions describing unconstitutional government action, America’s national security is harmed," argues the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Enter the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public interest group focused on digital rights. It quickly filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Justice Department for any written opinion or order of the FISA court that held government surveillance was improper or unconstitutional. The Justice Department did not respond, and EFF was forced to file a lawsuit a month later.
It took the Justice Department four months to reply. The government's lawyers noted that they had located records responsive to the request, including a FISA court opinion. But the department was withholding the opinion because it was classified.
EFF pushed ahead with its lawsuit, and in a filing in April, the Justice Department acknowledged that the document in question was an 86-page opinion the FISA court had issued on October 3, 2011. Again, there was no reference to the specific surveillance activity that the court had found improper or unconstitutional. And now the department argued that the opinion was controlled by the FISA court and could only be released by that body, not by the Justice Department or through an order of a federal district court. In other words, leave us alone and take this case to the secret FISA court itself.
To ensure the loyalty of the German Volk, the Nazis instituted a health benefits and a pension program...
To ensure the loyalty of the German Volk, the Nazis instituted a health benefits and a pension program. "All Germans were to be registered with a doctor, and for this to be possible medical practices would have to be organized and allotted by the state. The aim was to ensure that there were enough doctors in rural areas..." (Kitchen 111)
Miami Florida Voted Number One Place To Cheat...
Miami is the sunny place for shady people — especially cheaters from the Big Apple!
The Magic City is the most popular summertime vacation destination for two-timing New Yorkers and their affair partners, a new survey claims.
The extramarital dating Web site AshleyMadison.com — which conducted a survey of 5,920 users — claims Miami is the top spot for affair getaways because it feels like a fantasy land without being too far away.
“If you’re stepping outside of life as a family person, Miami gives you that feeling — there’s an allure and it speaks to all walks of life,” said AshleyMadison founder Noel Biderman.
“And it’s only a two-hour flight from New York,” he added.
Roughly 16 percent answered Miami ; 14 percent said the Hamptons and 12 percent said Bahamas. Martha’s Vineyard and Las Vegas were also popular .
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/miami_cheat_for_timers_uKtFYPPBRPQjw3syg8735N
Barack Obama Begins His Training In "Wealth Redistribution" In 1965
With His Communist Trainer and Mother, Ann Dunham
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