I know all y'all DU'ers trust President Obama

[sabrina 1]

68. Are you serious? Have you forgotten the US Constitution, which is the standard by which all laws

and actions, especially by elected officials, are measured. Presidents could not do as they liked, ever. See Nixon.

The Constitution, the People and Congress and the Judiciary are the checks on the President and so far, though our democracy has been threatened before, our system has managed to put the brakes on before it went too far. The guide has always been the Constitution when that became necessary.

The FISA Court was an example of Congress' role in our system of checks and balances. It was always a weak solution to the problem that initiated it. Secret courts are not conducive to a Democracy, but the intentions were good, to confine spying to Foreign Enemies and therefore strengthen the 4th Amendment which had been under assault.

The American people are not the enemy of this government, which is why spying on them and propaganda used to deceive foreign enemies are forbidden in this country.

Under Bush Congress chose to weaken that law after he broke it, in order legalize retroactively what they had done.

Any form of domestic activity against the American people by the NSA and their 'security' contractors, is a violation of FISA. The 'F' stands for FOREIGN not Domestic. And it's time to have public hearings to get some answers as to just what they have been up to.