Great analysis from Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on the AntiWar.com website:
The Supreme Court has ruled that electronic surveillance constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. That amendment prohibits warrantless searches and requires probable cause of crime as the sole trigger for judges to sign search warrants. FISA only requires probable cause relating to a foreign agent on one end of a phone call – a far lower standard – to trigger a warrant. The government has convinced the FISC that it should grant warrants based on probable cause of talking to someone who has ever spoken to a foreign person, whether an agent of a foreign government or an innocent foreign bookseller.
That judicially created standard is so far afield from the Fourth Amendment as to render it legally erroneous and profoundly unconstitutional. Yet the FISA expansion that the president signed into law last month – after the debate during which House Intelligence Committee Republicans intentionally remained mute about their allegations of FISA abuses – purports to make this Stasi-like level of surveillance lawful.
The political use of intelligence data makes the owner of the data a serious threat to personal liberty, and it renders his instruments monstrous.
You can read the rest @
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2018/02/07/it-can-happen-here-5/
Exactly what do the clowns in DC think they're doing?
And why are We The People letting them do it?
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