Sen. Al Franken Knew Of and Supported NSA Snooping
"There are certain things that are appropriate for me to know that is not appropriate for the bad guys to know," Franken said.
"There are certain things that are appropriate for me to know that is not appropriate for the bad guys to know," Franken said.
The government will always insist it's acting within the law.
They also want punishment of responsible officials and an investigation
A rather novel interpretation of "reasonable suspicion"
The same goes for Republicans.
Innocent people should not be punished in the pursuit of the guilty.
Oddly, it's also uniting Democratic and Republican control freaks
Edward Snowden says, "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things"
Secret courts and classified proceedings
While Twitter and a few others resisted
See, it's not so bad ... well ... compared to something worse
If they play footsy with the feds, they pay the cost
Instead, they just ignored it
And kicking in everybody's door would catch some bad guys
Somebody remembered the Fourth Amendment!
Which may be why the feds are so pissed about the leak
It's the only way to prevent any sort of meaningful check or balance on executive power.
He's gathering support from colleagues
Pretty damned timely
That's probably a diplomatic way of saying "profiling"
A Fourth Amendment case shows once again that the justice does not live up to his authoritarian reputation.
The medallion is often associated with Mexican drug dealers
Time for D.C. to get with the program
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