{"id":14025,"date":"2014-04-04T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=14025"},"modified":"2014-04-04T10:43:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:43:43","slug":"nsa-spying-what-if-secrecy-trumps-the-constitution-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/nsa-spying\/nsa-spying-what-if-secrecy-trumps-the-constitution-fox.php","title":{"rendered":"NSA spying: What if secrecy trumps the Constitution? | Fox &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>        The United States Constitution. (ARCHIVES.GOV)      <\/p>\n<p>    What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is    violating the Constitution by spying on all Americans without    showing a judge probable cause of wrongdoing or identifying the    persons it wishes to spy upon, as the Constitution requires?    What if this massive spying has come about because the NSA    found it too difficult to follow the Constitution?  <\/p>\n<p>    What if the Constitution was written to keep the government off    the peoples backs, but the NSA and the president and some    members of Congress have put the NSA not only on our backs, but    in our bedrooms, kitchens, telephones and computers? What if    when you look at your computer screen, the NSA is looking right    back at you?  <\/p>\n<p>    What if the NSA really thought it could keep the fact that it    is spying on all Americans and many others throughout the world    secret from American voters?  <\/p>\n<p>    What if Congress enacted laws that actually delegate some    congressional powers to elite congressional committees -- one    in the Senate and one in the House?  <\/p>\n<p>    What if this delegation of power is unconstitutional because    the Constitution gives all legislative powers to Congress as a    whole and Congress itself is powerless to give some of its    power away to two of its secret committees?  <\/p>\n<p>    What if the members of these elite committees who hear and see    secrets from the NSA, the CIA and other federal intelligence    agencies are themselves sworn to secrecy?  <\/p>\n<p>    What if the secrets they hear are so terrifying that some of    these members of Congress dont know what to do about it?  <\/p>\n<p>    What if the secrecy prohibits these congressional committee    members from telling anyone what they know and seeking advice    about these awful truths?  <\/p>\n<p>    What if they cant tell a spouse at home, a lawyer in her    office, a priest in confessional, a judge when under oath in a    courtroom, other members of Congress or the voters who sent    them to Congress?  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2014\/04\/03\/nsa-spying-what-if-secrecy-trumps-constitution\/\" title=\"NSA spying: What if secrecy trumps the Constitution? | Fox ...\">NSA spying: What if secrecy trumps the Constitution? | Fox ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The United States Constitution. (ARCHIVES.GOV) What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all Americans without showing a judge probable cause of wrongdoing or identifying the persons it wishes to spy upon, as the Constitution requires? What if this massive spying has come about because the NSA found it too difficult to follow the Constitution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nsa-spying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}