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On Jan. 3, outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch secretly signed an order directing the National Security Agency -- America’s 60,000-person-strong domestic spying apparatus -- to make available raw spying data to all other federal intelligence agencies, which then can pass it on to their counterparts in foreign countries and in the 50 states upon request. She did so, she claimed, for administrative convenience. Yet in doing this, she violated basic constitutional principles that were erected centuries ago to prevent just what she did.
Yet in doing this, she violated basic constitutional principles that were erected centuries ago to prevent just what she did.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: queenofswords
They were insuring the dirt on trump and the Russians wasn't flushed by the incoming admin who had lots to lose by the info.
originally posted by: FamCore
a reply to: queenofswords
Yet in doing this, she violated basic constitutional principles that were erected centuries ago to prevent just what she did.
I'd like to know which "Constitutional Principles" Loretta Lynch officially violated by doing this. I'm not doubting what she did at all, just hoping to get a little more detail before delving deeper into this
The recent USA Freedom Act permits the NSA to ask the FISA court for a search warrant for any person -- named or unnamed -- based on the standard of “governmental need.”
Now, because of the Lynch secret order, revealed by The New York Times late last week, the NSA may share any of its data with any other intelligence agency or law enforcement agency that has an intelligence arm based on -- you guessed it -- the non-standard of governmental need.
So President Barack Obama, in the death throes of his time in the White House, has delivered perhaps his harshest blow to constitutional freedom by permitting his attorney general to circumvent the Fourth Amendment, thereby enabling people in law enforcement to get whatever they want about whomever they wish without a showing of probable cause of crime as the Fourth Amendment requires. That amendment expressly forbids the use of general warrants -- search where you wish and seize what you find -- and they had never been a lawful tool of law enforcement until Lynch's order.