Here's The Letter I sent the House INTEL Committee on WIRETAPS

[Leopolds Ghost]

On Edit: Their e-mail address is:

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As an Amercian Citizen, I expect the HCSI not to Abrogate the 4th Amdmt

Attn: Hon. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)

and the Hon. members of the House Committee on Intelligence

cc: Hon. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)
cc: Hon. Albert Wynn (D-MD)

cc: Hon. Jamin Raskin,
Constitutional Civil Liberties scholar, MD State Senate

From: Leopolds Ghost
Citizen, (Address snipped)

As elected officials,

It is your responsibility to follow and uphold the Constitution
in every respect against enemies domestic and foreign. The
Constitution, in the 4th Amendment (which has never been repealed)
specifies how this is to be done.

Any politician or citizen who without warrant, without due and
CONSTITUTIONAL process of law,

without prior grounds for suspicion under Anglo-American system
of jurisprudence, spies on another citizen of the United States
in any form of protected communications is a criminal and an
enemy of the constitution and the US system of governance.

Especially if such action is taken under color of law, and with the stated intent of shielding your employer (the US Government) and its contractors from civil or criminal liability by declaring the grounds for legal standing under ANY constitutional challenge to your
constitutionally illegal act, priveliged by national security and thus
denied innocent US Citizens (whom the members of your committee
themselves admit exist and have been injured by this program.)

You cannot justify the existence of this program, much less
immunize your business associates and telecom advisors against it,
without resorting to state privilege that explicitly (throught the
act of asserting privilege guarding againsty the truth of the matter)
implies that the intent of the program is to render domestic
wiretapping of average American citizens unprosecutable.

On a lighter note, it would be interesting to know what ethical
standards are being employed by yourself and the honorable members
of this committee to protect the personal info (address, etc.)
of citizens such as myself, thus required/expected to be produced,
from being misused, e.g. for fundraising robo-calls, in the spirit
of FISA reform (whose stated intent is to make the records of
American citizens more easily accessible in the due course of
implementing dragnets for terrorism, and a whole laundry list
of future federal objectives that Congress deigns to take an
interest in, not to include abuse in the Executive branch, of course.)

Sincerely,

(Leopolds Ghost)

[islandmkl]

1. nice letter...good job...

of course, you could have just called one of your friends...

they would have gotten the message off the tapes...

:evilgrin: