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Federal Court strikes down NSA program

Breaking news.  A Federal Court Judge in Michigan has ruled the “Terrorism Surveillance Program” as unconstitutional under the First and Fourth Amendments and illegal under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.  More here.

We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the Constitution … It was never the intent of the Framers to give the President such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights.



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