The argument that Snowden’s revelations have caused a sudden shift in terrorist tactics that harms U.S. efforts at detecting terror does not add up. It is hard to believe that NSA’s only, or most effective, way of discerning the actions of terrorists is through surveilling millions of entirely innocent American citizens. Indeed, that would seem an extremely indirect, ineffective, and costly way and a way far afield from the international focus of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act........the federal government has knowingly and willfully violated the Fourth Amendment not once but millions of times. Who is to account for those violations? The President admits foreknowledge, and surely the buck stops with him. Moreover, what will become of NSA Director Clapper’s denial under oath in response to Senator Ron Wyden’s question concerning whether millions of Americans were surveilled by his agency? That false testimony is perjurious but also, in the absence of any correction by the Administration, reveals Administration complicity in it and a campaign of misinformation concerning domestic surveillance, refusing requested information even to key members of Congress. Who, if anyone, will be made to account for those law violations? newswithviews/Emord/jonathan306.htm
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:17:27 +0000
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