Andrew Napolitano on the NSA and Probable Cause

Last week, Robert S. Litt, general counsel for
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which runs the
National Security Agency (NSA), complained that presenting probable
cause about individuals to judges and then seeking search warrants
from those judges to engage in surveillance on those individuals is
too difficult. This is a remarkable admission from the chief lawyer
for the nation’s spies, Andrew Napolitano points out. Litt and the
60,000 NSA employees and vendors who have been spying on us have
taken oaths to uphold the Constitution. There are no loopholes in
their oaths. Each person’s oath is to the entire
Constitution—whether compliance is easy or difficult. Yet the “too
difficult” admission has far-reaching implications. 

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