Holder Vows He's Not Resigning

You've all read about the National Tap Everyone's Phone program by now, but if you haven't:

Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.

That's per Glenn Greenwald, who was leaked the court order.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation says this isn't even legal, and that the law the order is supposedly based upon still requires an individualized target, not the entire country:

But Cohn argues that the kind of dragnet surveillance suggested by the Verizon order exceeds even the authority granted by the Patriot Act. “Section 215 is written as if they’re going after individual people based on individual investigations,” she says. In contrast, the order leaked to the Guardian affects “millions and millions of innocent people. There’s no way all of our calling records are relevant to a terrorism investigation.”

“I don’t think Congress thought it was authorizing dragnet surveillance” when it passed the Patriot Act, Cohn says. “I don’t think Americans think that’s OK. I would be shocked if the majority of congressmen thought it’s okay.”

And what could be scarier than a blanket order to wiretap the country if not Eric Holder launching a leak investigation to find out who revealed the blanket order to wiretap the country?

Below, Eric Holder refuses to answer the Guardian's questions about this, and another video stolen from Hot Air: President Civil Liberties berating the Bush Administration for violating our civil liberties. It's a much watch, but not if you've recently eaten.

Update: Video of Holder vowing to not resign at Breitbart.

TBOTFGAHHAL.

(The last part: "Are Heavy, Huge, and Low."

posted by Ace at 01:10 PM

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