[quote=bearishgurl][quote=all][quote=bearishgurl]I just believe that a law-abiding American citzen has a right to privacy.[/quote]Right. But how do we know you are a law-abiding citizen without investigating you?[/quote]
Well, craptcha, I doubt any of us have spent much time in communist countries. But we don’t have to to know what the (gubment-controlled) media tells their public (“measured,” of course) in those regimes.
In the US, a prospective employer cannot even “investigate” a job candidate (beyond easily-obtainable local public record) without a full release signed by the candidate. Even past employers of a candidate will say NOTHING beyond dates of tenure to a prospective employer without seeing (and comparing) the candidate’s signature on a release. If a job candidate has limited access to their social networking page, a prospective employer cannot see it without the owner’s consent, i.e. he/she has to “friend” them to grant them access.
[quote=all][quote=beearishgurl]I’m particularly disturbed about the journalists’ phone records being subpeonaed by the CIA in the absence of any arrests.
[/quote]Don’t be. The CIA did not subpoena AP journalists’ phone records, so it’s all good. ….[/quote]
craptcha, that’s not what it says here, posted a little over an hour ago:
Atty General Holder “recused himself” from the subpoena by fobbing the dirty job off onto one of his lackeys. He even tried to justify it to an outraged citizenry and Congress:
. . . “It put the American people at risk, and that is not hyperbole,” he said. “It put the American people at risk. And trying to determine who was responsible for that I think required very aggressive action.”
The AP has said it was informed last Friday that the Justice Department had gathered records for more than 20 phone lines assigned to the news agency and its reporters.
The records covered April and May of last year, and were obtained earlier this year, the AP said.
It described the seizures as a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into news-gathering operations.
“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters,” Pruitt said in a letter sent to Holder on Monday.
Reid, the Senate’s top Democrat, told reporters at the Capitol, “I have trouble defending what the Justice Department did, in … looking at AP.”
“I don’t know who did it, why it was done, but it’s inexcusable, and there is no way to justify this,” Reid said.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama sought to balance support for a free press with the need to investigate leaks of classified information.
“The president believes that the press as a rule needs to have an unfettered ability to pursue investigative journalism,” Carney told a news briefing.
“He is also committed, as president and as a citizen, to the proposition that we cannot allow classified information, that can do harm to our national security interests or do harm to individuals, to be leaked,” Carney said.
Carney reiterated that the White House was not involved in the decision to seize the AP records.
(emphasis added)
The White House (Pres Obama) tried to appear to support the Fourth Amendment whilst straddling the fence.
