National Security: The Attack on the Constitution
Jim Marcinkowski at No Quarter - a speech delivered on February 8 in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Parallels between the Busheviks and the Bolsheviks. [picks]
As a lawyer and prosecutor over the years, I obtained numerous search warrants and arrest warrants for and against those believed, based on probable cause, to have committed a crime. There is a very basic principle involved in obtaining any warrant: an allegation based on reasonable belief or probable cause that someone has broken the law. That belief or probable cause is presented by a prosecutor to a judge who either accepts or rejects that allegation. In this way, the power of one branch of our government, the executive, is reviewed or "checked" by the judicial branch. This is probably one of the most fundamental concepts of our government. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) incorporates this basic constitutional design.
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