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Congress Plotting to Cut
a Hole in the 4th Amendment, Again
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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scum-Durbin Plays RACE CARD ACE in Orchestrated “Sh*thole” Trump Attack To Win on DACA
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Drama queen scum-Dick Durbin is obviously insincere in his manufactured outrage, pretending to be a little snowflake screaming... like a schoolgirl imploring someone to brush the spider off his jacket. He’s playing the the ace of race cards with this little sh*thole show. He’s not sincere and all of it is targeted towards removing and undermining President Trump and promoting their open borders, globalist agenda. He’s just playing politics with Democrats engineering this whole “sh*thole” controversy in order to force President Trump to cave on DACA amnesty. Many of us warned President Trump against ignoring the words of his campaign readings of “The Snake” and sitting down in meetings with Democrats, in one recent case flanked by two of their most vile operatives, scum-Durbin and scum-Hoyer... https://rickwells.us/durbin-race-card-daca/.
Rep Barbara Lee – TRUMP Wants To
Make America WHITE [AND CIVILIZED] Again
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Communist race pimp and member of the racist Congressional Black Caucus, Rep Barbara Lee (D-CA)... joined Andrea Mitchell in the next phase of their public political lynching of President Trump. Trump says he didn’t say what the vile subhuman Senator scum-Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he did, but even if he made the comments, describing a country as a “sh*thole,” whether an accurate or false evaluation, is not racist. “Sh*tholes” come in all colors. It just so happens that non-whites haven’t done as good of a job of elevating themselves out of those conditions as their fairer-skinned counterparts. It’s a statement of fact, nothing more. Those who have the higher standard of living and civility are those President Trump would prefer to see immigrate into the US, as they would bring assets and not be a social burden. They reside in more prosperous and civilly similar nations... https://rickwells.us/lee-trump-america-white/.
Christian university nixes
'anti-Islam' event for terror-tied group
by ART MOORE
{wnd.com} ~ An evangelical university in Tennessee canceled a summit on Islam hosted by a Republican candidate for governor... in response to criticism that the speakers were anti-Muslim. The Homeland Security Summit, scheduled for Jan. 25 at Trevecca Nazarene University, was to feature speakers such as political-Islam scholar Bill French (a.k.a. Bill Warner), former DHS and NYPD counter-terrorism trainer Cathy Hinners and former FBI counter-terrorism agent John Guandolo. Ibrahim Hooper, the chief spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations – a Washington, D.C.-based group designated by an Arab Gulf state as a terrorist organization – condemned the speakers as a “who’s who of Islamophobes,” according to The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville... http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/christian-university-nixes-anti-islam-event-for-terror-tied-group/.
Was Seth Rich Killed over the Steele Dossier?
by Daniel John Sobieski
{americanthinker.com} ~ If we are to believe the transcript of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in August... released unexpectedly by Sen. Dianne Fein-stein (D-Calif.), the search for a smoking gun in the dossier scandal may lead us to a dead body, at least according to Simpson's lawyer: During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in August 2017, Glenn Simpson was questioned about whether he tried to "assess the credibility" of sources behind information uncovered by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent who compiled the dossier. "Yes, but I'm not going to get into sourcing information," Simpson said. Asked again what "steps he took to verify their credibility," Simpson declined to answer. His lawyer, Joshua Levy, then intervened and said Simpson was just trying to protect his sources... http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/was_seth_rich_killed_over_the_steele_dossier.html
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Tucker Carlson: No, Chris Cuomo, You’re Not Just A Journalist
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Trish Regan Beats Dem Rep: You’re Afraid People Will Credit Trump For Good Economy.
President Trump Signs A Proclamation To Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Life Changing Technologies For People With Disabilities Created In Israel.
Mike Huckabee Dings ‘Fancy Nancy’ Pulosi For Mocking DACA Negotiators.
Kentucky Becomes First State To Implement Medicaid Work Requirements.
Millions Of Americans Receiving Bonuses Following Trump’s Tax Reform.
Hannity: Evidence Of Bias On Mueller’s Team Keeps Piling Up (AP/DOJ Collusion).
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Congress Plotting to Cut
a Hole in the 4th Amendment, Again
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Hidden beneath the controversy stirred up last week by the publication of a book called "Fire and Fury," a highly critical insider's view of the Trump White House that the president has not only denounced on national television but also tried to prevent from being published and distributed, are the efforts of the Trump administration and congressional leadership to bypass the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Hidden beneath the controversy stirred up last week by the publication of a book called "Fire and Fury," a highly critical insider's view of the Trump White House that the president has not only denounced on national television but also tried to prevent from being published and distributed, are the efforts of the Trump administration and congressional leadership to bypass the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
Here is the back story.
After the excesses of the Watergate era, during which the Nixon administration used the FBI and the CIA unlawfully to spy without warrants on the president's real and imagined domestic political opponents, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. FISA prohibited all domestic surveillance except that which is pursuant to warrants signed by federal judges.
The Fourth Amendment — which guarantees privacy in our persons, houses, papers and effects — permits the government to invade that privacy only when a judge has signed a warrant that authorizes surveillance, a search or a seizure. And judges may only issue warrants when they have found probable cause to believe that the government surveillance or invasion of the target's privacy will produce evidence of criminal behavior. The Fourth Amendment further requires that the judicial warrant describe specifically the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized.
All these requirements are in the amendment so as to prevent any court from issuing general warrants. Before the Constitution, general warrants were issued by British courts that met in secret in London. They were not issued based on probable cause of crime but issued based on the government's wish to invade the privacy of all Americans living in the Colonies to find the more rebellious among them. This was the king and Parliament's version of protecting national security.
General warrants did not describe the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized. They authorized the bearer — usually a British soldier physically located in the Colonies — to search where he wished and seize whatever he found.
FISA did not interfere with the standard understanding or use of the Fourth Amendment by the government and the courts. But it did add another way for the government to invade privacy when its wish is to surveil people for national security purposes — a return to general warrants — as opposed to solely gathering evidence of crimes.
The FISA-created procedure, enacted in defiance of the Fourth Amendment — which makes no distinction between government evidence gathering and government intelligence gathering — permits a secret court in Washington to issue general warrants based on the government's need to gather intelligence about national security from foreigners among us. It pretends that the standard is probable cause of foreign agency, but this has now morphed into the issuance of general warrants whenever the government wants them.
Since 1977, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has issued well over 99 percent of the warrants that the government has requested. And these warrants do not specifically describe the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized. A typical FISC-issued warrant authorizes government surveillance on all landlines, mobile devices and desktop computers in a given area or ZIP code. One infamous FISC-issued search warrant permitted the feds to surveil all Verizon customers in the U.S. — in excess of 115 million people — without any evidence of crime or even suspicion about any of them.
Now back to the Trump administration's work below the radar. Even in the fresh aftermath of 9/11, when the government's respect for constitutional norms was at a lamentably low point, the government interpreted the Fourth Amendment as requiring the government to separate its intelligence functions from its law enforcement work. The government recognized that its trigger for mass surveillance — namely, looking for a foreign agent among the populace — was a far lower standard than probable cause of crime, which is what the Fourth Amendment requires.
Today, the federal government's computers are permanently connected to the mainframes of all telecoms and computer service providers in America, so the spying is in real time. Today, the federal government employs more than 60,000 domestic spies — one spy for every 5,500 Americans. Today, if any of them come across evidence of crimes while listening to your telephone calls or reading your texts or emails ostensibly for intelligence purposes, there is little they can do about it.
Until now.
Now, hidden beneath the "Fire and Fury" controversy is the muffled sound of the Trump administration and Republican congressional leaders plotting the enactment of an addition to FISA that would permit the use of evidence of crimes in federal court even when it is discovered during mass surveillance authorized by general warrants.
If enacted, this radical, unconstitutional hole in the Fourth Amendment would bring the country full circle back to the government's use of general warrants to harass and prosecute — general warrants so odious to our forebears that they took up arms against the king's soldiers to be rid of them.
I am surprised that President Donald Trump supports this. He has himself been the target of unlawful foreign surveillance and unconstitutional FISC-authorized domestic surveillance. "Fire and Fury" even quotes former British Prime Minister Tony Blair warning a newly elected Trump about this. And now he wants to unleash upon us all the voracious appetite for surveillance that was unleashed upon him and prosecute us for what is found, the Constitution be damned.
Whatever happened to the public promise to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution as it is written? That's in the oath all in government have taken. That is the oath that the president and his Republican allies reject.
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