Later On

I don’t think there’s any doubt that the Obama Administration is vigorously and deliberately undermining and curtailing individual rights once granted to Americans by the Constitution. As a Constitutional scholar and one-time professor, Obama seems to know exactly how to destroy those rights, and the process seems to me to be pretty far along: once the government can get any case against it thrown out of court just by saying the three magic words (“state secrets privilege”), then it can do pretty much anything it likes. And, of course, the Supreme Court independently has given all prosecutors a free pass to allow them to get convictions by illegal means without having to worry whether that might get them into trouble: they now have immunity.

It’s quite bad. Read this summary of the latest outrage—a refusal even to provide reasons for the decision that the FBI is no longer bound by any legal restraints on obtaining and using telephone records—and, of course, NSA is now sweeping up everything transmitted, voice or data, and using ThinThread to analyze it (for an explanation—and yet another Constitutional outrage from Obama—see this article).