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| Mercer: Whodonit? Who meddled with our democracy? |
| 2018-02-09 |
| [WND] Republicans have revealed that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) treats Americans not as citizens, but as subjects to spy on. I’d expect nothing less from a court created and perpetuated by George W. Bush and his Republicans. But, what do you know? Following Barack Obama’s lead, President Donald Trump and his Republicans have renewed FISA Section 702, which, in fact, has facilitated the usurpations the same representatives are currently denouncing. Also in contravention of a quaint constitutional relic called the Fourth Amendment is Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller has taken possession of "many tens of thousands of emails from President Donald Trump’s transition team." There is no limit, seemingly, to the power of the special counsel. Look, we’re living in a post-constitutional America. Complaints about the damage done to our "democracy" by outsiders are worse than silly. Such damage pales compared to what we Americans have done to a compact rooted in the consent of the governed and the drastically limited and delimited powers of those who govern. In other words, a republic. Ours was never a country conceived as a democracy. To arrive at a democracy, we Americans destroyed a republic. The destruction is on display daily. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 It's one thing to badmouth FISA now that it has been exposed as political but without FISA the FBI could have done the same thing with no paper trail at all |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-09 14:48 |
| #3 Does Fisa Section 702 pass constitutional muster? I doubt it but then again there have been a lot of end-arounds in recent history. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-02-09 10:58 |
| #2 President Donald Trump and his Republicans have renewed FISA Section 702 I recall this is a temporary renewal. They need to appoint a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Transition czar. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-02-09 09:56 |
| #1 But, what do you know? Following Barack Obama’s lead, President Donald Trump and his Republicans have renewed FISA Section 702, which, in fact, has facilitated the usurpations the same representatives are currently denouncing. A fact not frequently mentioned it seems, and at a time when the bastids could hardly agree on anything else. Somewhere in all of this, there lies a message. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-09 08:03 |