Matthew Rothschild: Russ Feingold Was Prescient on Domestic Spying

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from the Progressive:


Russ Feingold Was Prescient on Domestic Spying
By Matthew Rothschild, June 7, 2013


Another day. Another civil liberties violation by the Obama Administration.

The revelation that the government has been tracking our e-mails, photos, and videos from Facebook and YouTube and grabbing all sorts of our information from Google and Apple and Skype should concern us all, as should yesterday’s scandal about the NSA’s vast domestic surveillance.

We’re supposed to have a Fourth Amendment right to be “secure” in our “persons, houses, papers, and effects,” but we aren’t any more.

Not at all. .............................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/how-prescient-russ-feingold-was-on-domestic-spying

[indepat]

1. If only national office-holders and high-ranking officials and officers were required to swear to an

oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, maybe this would not be an issue.

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2. I would recommend The Progressive to all.