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A Conspiracy of Silence Assaults Privacy
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GOWDY SIDES WITH MUELLER Over
Trump Again – Leave Him The Hell Alone
by rickwells.us
{ rickwells.us } ~ Rep Trey “Yes Ma’am” Gowdy joined Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday for what seemed to be another of his... efforts to shore up support for the witch hunt against President Trump and its chief inquisitor, Robert Mueller. Wallace leads off by asking, “Do you still trust, after all you’ve heard evidence of conflicts of interest and previous criminal abuse of power do you still trust special counsel Robert Mueller to conduct a fair and unbiased investigation?” Gowdy replies without hesitation, “One hundred percent, particularly if he’s given the time, the resources and the independence to do his job.” His job was to investigate Russia-Trump collusion, which there is no evidence of and he is no longer doing. He’s had the independence to go off on other tracks of investigation and to target other people for non-existent crimes that had to be fabricated by the FBI, Mike Flynn comes to mind. How fair and unbiased is that, Rep Gowdy?... https://rickwells.us/gowdy-mueller-trump-alone/.FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe resigns
by Kelly Cohen
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe resigned effective immediately Monday... A source familiar with the situation told the Washington Examiner than McCabe is taking "terminal leave" for now until he can officially retire when his pension kicks in. NBC reported that his retirement would take effect mid-March. In December, the Washington Post first reported his retirement would come in the spring. McCabe, who at one point was acting director from May to August 2017 after President Trump abruptly fired then-director James Comey, has been at the center of tensions between the White House and FBI leadership in recent months. Comey appointed McCabe to be deputy director in January 2016... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/deputy-fbi-director-andrew-mccabe-resigns/article/2647387?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/29/18&utm_medium=email .
Trey Gowdy hints at what damning
information is found in secret FISA memo
by Chris Enloe
{ theblaze.com } ~ Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), one of the leading House Republicans, hinted at the contents of the secret “FISA memo”... that details alleged government surveillance abuses during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.” Since news of the memo broke, Republicans have called for the memo’s public release, as has President Donald Trump. They say the American public needs to see what the memo contains, and more importantly, what the government is doing. They say the four-page memo offers evidence the liar-nObama administration used the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on the Trump campaign and transition team. Democrats, on the other hand, say the memo is filled with classified, biased information meant to undermine the Department of Justice and special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation... https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/01/28/trey-gowdy-hints-at-what-damning-information-is-found-in-secret-fisa-memo?utm_content=bufferdcc23&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer .
Democrat governors planning
lawsuit to block GOP’s tax overhaul
by Leslie Eastman
{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ Legal Insurrection readers will recall the California legislature’s attempt to create a special government fund as a “charity” for taxpayer donations... to mitigate the loss of state and local tax (SALT) deductions in the recently passed GOP tax plans. The politicians must have realized the approach was full of fail, so now leaders of several blue states are planning a lawsuit to block the entire overhaul package. California may join in. I am a little shocked the the Golden State generals in the War on Trump are not leading this charge. The suit is expected to be launched shortly... https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/01/democrat-governors-planning-lawsuit-to-block-gops-tax-overhaul/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29.
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A Conspiracy of Silence Assaults Privacy
{townhall.com} ~During the past three weeks, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law vast new powers for the NSA and the FBI to spy on innocent Americans and selectively to pass on to law enforcement the fruits of that spying.
Those fruits can now lawfully include all fiber-optic data transmitted to or in the United States, such as digital recordings of all landline and mobile telephone calls and copies in real time of all text messages and emails and banking, medical and legal records electronically stored or transmitted.
All this bulk surveillance had come about because the National Security Agency convinced federal judges meeting in secret that they should authorize it. Now Congress and the president have made it the law of the land.
This enactment came about notwithstanding the guarantee of the right to privacy -- the right to be left alone -- articulated in the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and elsewhere. Though the surveillance expansion passed the Senate by just one vote, it apparently marks a public policy determination that the Constitution can be ignored or evaded by majority consent whenever it poses an obstacle to the government's purposes.
The language of the Fourth Amendment is an intentional obstacle to the government in deference to human dignity and personal liberty. It reads: "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."
This specific language was expressly written to prevent the bulk suspicionless surveillance that the British government had used against the colonists. British courts in London issued general warrants to British soldiers in America, authorizing them to search wherever they wished and seize whatever they found. These warrants were not based on probable cause, and they did not describe the place to be searched or the people or things to be seized.
The Colonial reaction to the British use of general warrants was to take up arms and fight the American Revolution.
Last week, Congress and the president chose to ignore our history and the human values underlying the right to privacy. Those values recognize that the individual pursuit of happiness is best actualized in an atmosphere free from the government's prying eyes. Stated differently, the authors and ratifiers of the Fourth Amendment recognized that a person is not fully happy when being watched all the time by the government.
Yet the constitutional values and timeless lessons of history were not only rejected by Congress but also rejected in ignorance, and the ignorance was knowingly facilitated by the members of the House Intelligence Committee.
Here is the back story.
The recent behavior of the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee constitutes incompetence at best and misconduct in office at worst. The leadership sat on knowledge of NSA and FBI surveillance abuses that some committee members have characterized as "career-ending," "jaw-dropping" and "KGB-like," while both houses of Congress -- ignorant of what their 22 House Intelligence Committee colleagues knew -- voted to expand NSA and FBI surveillance authorities.
Stated differently, the 22 members of the committee knowingly kept from their 500 or so congressional colleagues incendiary information that, had it been revealed in a timely manner, would certainly have affected the outcome of the vote -- particularly in the Senate, where a switch of just one vote would have prevented passage of this expansion of bulk surveillance authorization.
Why were all members of Congress but the 22 on this committee kept in the dark about NSA and FBI lawlessness? Why didn't the committee reveal to Congress what it claims is too shocking to discuss publicly before Congress voted on surveillance expansion? Where is the outrage that this information was known to a few in the House and kept from the remainder of Congress while it ignorantly voted to assault the right to privacy?
The new law places too much power in the hands of folks who even the drafters of it have now acknowledged are inherently unworthy of this trust. I argued last week that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was up to something when he publicly attacked the trustworthiness of the NSA and FBI folks whose secret powers he later inexplicably voted to expand. Now we know what he was talking about.
What can be done about this?
The House Intelligence Committee should publicly reveal the contents of its four-page report that summarizes the NSA and FBI abuses. If that fails, a courageous member of the committee should go to the floor of the House -- as Sen. Dianne Fein-stein once took the CIA torture report to the floor of the Senate -- and reveal not just the four-page report but also the underlying data upon which the report is based. Members of Congress enjoy full immunity for anything said on the House or Senate floor, yet personal courage is often in short supply.
But there is a bigger picture here than House Intelligence Committee members sitting on valuable intelligence and keeping it from their colleagues. The American people are entitled to know how the government in whose hands we have reposed the Constitution for safekeeping has used and abused the powers we have given to it. The American people are also entitled to know who abused power and who knew about it and remained silent.
Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? In theory, of course, the government works for us. In practice, it treats us as children. Why do we accept this from a government to which we have consented? Democracy dies in darkness. So does personal freedom.
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