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"Keeping America safe and enforcing our nation’s laws in an increasingly digital world depends on our ability to lawfully examine all materials entering the U.S
by leeoniya 10y ago
"Keeping America safe and enforcing our nation’s laws in an increasingly digital world depends on our ability to lawfully examine all materials entering the U.S.,"
What does "lawfully" even mean in this context? It's one of those words used specifically to excuse legally questionable practices at best, and outright illegal or unethical behavior by people in positions of authority, like parallel construction and evidence suppression.
You can say we lawfully performed a civil forfieture. Or lawfully detained a suspect for 8 months.
- pjc50 10y agoIt's also absurd given the quantity of data that "enters the US" over the wires.
- tokai 10y agoThat is 'lawfully' 'examined' as well.
- neom 10y agoKeep in mind that constitutional principles do not apply fully at US borders.
- leeoniya 10y agoand the torture sections of the Geneva convention do not apply to the US govt outside US borders either, cause war on terror, war on drugs, <insert crazy justification here>
- mindslight 10y agoConstitutional principles do fully apply at borders, just as they fully apply to all people, including non-citizens outside of the country. The courts have helpfully manufactured justifications for violating them though, just as any tyrant would.