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> Any plans for calling for the dismantling of the NSA for blatantly violating the constitutional rights of millions of Americans? It has not done that. It ma
by wtbob 12y ago
> Any plans for calling for the dismantling of the NSA for blatantly violating the constitutional rights of millions of Americans?
It has not done that. It may or may not have violated what you (and possibly I) might like those rights to be. But wanting doesn't make something so. I would love to restrict subpoena power solely to defendants compelling testimony in their defense, but until it has been so restricted, anyone can be forced to provide evidence to the state. I would love for the Fourth Amendment to apply at border crossings, but the courts—to include the Supreme Court—have repeatedly held that it does not.
The law is not what we want, but what it is. So far as I am aware, NSA has consistently acted within the limits of the law, as interpreted by the courts for decades and centuries. Acting within the limits of the law, incidentally, is precisely what neither Mr. Snowden nor Miss Arce did.