A truly FRIGHTENING post on DU today...."10 things to know about Snowden".

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246. Did that news show happen to mention how many times the FISA Court DENIED...

...turned down the NSA's request for a Warrant?


The answer is ZERO.
FISA granted every single request for a warrant from the NSA for Electronic Surveillance.
Seems a little one sided, Eh?

Like a procedural Rubber Stamp for the Government instead of a court tasked with protecting and enforcing the 4th Amendment for the People:

[font size=3]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.[/font]

Wouldn't you LOVE to see the NSA's request for the FISA warrant to seize the data from MILLIONS of Verizon customers?
They MUST have had a HELL of a time "describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized".
But we can't see it, because its SECRET!!!!

...and THIS is only ONE of the warrants approved by the FISA Rubber Stamp Court.


Really must be hard defending this kind of bullshit.


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at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."
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Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]

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