OpEdNews: Action Alert! Contact Dems on Senate Judiciary Committee

[PhilipShore]

OpEdNews
Action Alert! Contact Dems on Senate Judiciary Committee
by Carolyn Kay of Make Them Accountable
February 5, 2006

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_carolyn__060205_action_alert_21__conta.htm

Who Will Protect our Civil Liberties?

To Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Time Magazine reports that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will testify before you tomorrow regarding the administration’s clearly illegal warrantless wiretapping. In the article is this statement: "he Attorney General plans to leave open the possibility that President Bush will ask the court to give blanket approval to the program, a step that some lawmakers and even some Administration officials contend would put it on more solid legal footing."
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1156499,00.html

I don’t understand how courts can give blanket ap
proval for this activity. The Fourth Amendment clearly states that we citizens have a “RIGHT” to be secure in our “persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures”, and that government must obtain a specific warrant based on specific, sworn information to violate that security. The Constitution clearly does not give the Executive the power to go on fishing expeditions, which is what their activities have been.

[Crazy Canuck]

1. ...

"The Fourth Amendment clearly states that we citizens have a “RIGHT” to be secure in our “persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures”"

Unfortunately, you forgot to include the part that says, "unless it interferes with government activities in any way, shape or form.".

[Slit Skirt]

2. this needs to be acted on...very, very important