Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment

mrogers writes "The EFF has uncovered a troubling footnote in a newly declassified Bush Administration memo, which asserts that 'our Office recently [in 2001] concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.' This could mean that the Administration believes the NSA's warrantless wiretapping and data mining programs are not governed by the Constitution, which would cast Administration claims that the programs did not violate the Fourth Amendment in a whole new light — after all, you can't violate a law that doesn't apply. The claimed immunity would also cover other DoD agencies, such as CIFA, which carry out offline surveillance of political groups within the United States."

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Re:Only the 4th ammendment?

[s4ck]

If you need ridiculous fantasy like that to justify the right to bear arms, one more reason to remove it or at least put hard line control over it. nutcases should not have access to arms that can so easily kill fellow citizens.

a firearm is a fireamrs. it is a weapon to kill and endanger your fellow citizens. it has no place in a civilized society but in the hands of the authority. the authority put in place by democratic institution and principles that (almost) all of society abide. A consensus that was not found in 1776 or in the early years.

the rebellion fantasy is so out of touch with reality that even today when your government openly lied to you (Irak) on the most dangerous issue of all (war) and spy on its own citizen, no rebellion is even close to be fomenting. the closest would be an impeachment yet that's not even close to be happening.