Amnesty International: USA must not hunt down or prosecute whistleblower Edward Snowden

[JDPriestly]

47. But we should bring it to everyone's attention because explains why

this surveillance program is illegal and it does it in an authoritative voice.

Even though the Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the constitutionality of this specific program or these specific programs, Marshall point out in logic that cannot be rebutted that these programs of mass surveillance are unconstitutional.

Obtaining the pen register, that is, the phone records of one suspect may not implicate more than the Fourth Amendment, and may be, in specific cases according to the court, justified by the need to accomplish justice.

But as the Obama and Bush administrations' NSAs are implementing this program, it violates a lot more than the Fourth Amendment and is so blatantly unconstitutional that I cannot believe they found some hack just-out-of-school sycophantic "lawyer" to write an opinion that OKs it.

Wow! Wonder what they offered this soul because it seems to me that writing an internal memo that would OK this program could mean a trip to Hell in the afterlife for some poor misguided pawn of the NSA. This program is so blatantly unconstitutional that any first year law student should recognize it. Who in the world do they have working at the NSA?