Comments on: ACLU Raises Objections Over Expanded Military and CIA Domestic Spying

By: The Wide Awakes

The Wide Awakes — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:43:51 +0000

Stop the Aclu Blogburst

ACLU Raises Objections Over Expanded Military and CIA Domestic Spying
The NY Times continues in their quest to leak out our methods to our enemies.
The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Ame…

By: Cao's Blog

Cao's Blog — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:41:14 +0000

Stop the ACLU Blogburst

By: kerwin_brown

kerwin_brown — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:48:33 +0000

There is no such thing as privacy rights beyond any aspect of property rights. If you give a bank or any other institution your intellectual property they are free do with it whatever they please unless you have some contract with them. It is the same with your money or any other possession. Currently banks can distribute information about you though you are given an opt out option.

http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs24a-optout.htm

The Security letters are warrantless searches which make them unconstitutional at the federal level. The only way they may be deemed constitutional is if the situation meets the criteria that a warrantless search is normally allowed or if the conditions in the clause in Article 1 Section 9 that allows the privilege of habeas corpus from being withdrawn and the last is a liberal interpretation of that clause.

By: Philip A. Byler

Philip A. Byler — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:55:07 +0000

Terrorism requires money. So the federal government is conducting investigations into financial records that may be linked to terrorist activities. If the federal government did not do so, it would be remiss in taking steps to protect us from further terrorist strikes. The New York Times and the ACLU are simply off the wall.

By: Church and State

Church and State — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:27:23 +0000

ACLU Raises Objections Over Expanded Military and

The NY Times continues in their quest to leak out our methods to our enemies. The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the Uni…

By: Jeff Molby

Jeff Molby — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:16:44 +0000

From what little I’ve heard about this report, it doesn’t concern me anywhere near as much as the other programs. We kissed away our right to financial privacy back during the “war on drugs.”
I’m glad the ACLU is raising a stink about it, but I doubt they’ll get anywhere.

Notice the way they paint up investigating terror suspectsâ€™ finances into â€™spyingâ€™ on innocent â€˜Americansâ€™? They do the same thing with the NSA program. They use the typical scare method on the paranoid exaggeration that the â€˜government is flipping through Americanâ€™s checkbooks.

“Terror suspects”, like any other suspects in this country, are innocent until a court of competent jurisdiction says otherwise. So frankly, I don’t see how you can say that they are doing anything other than “flipping through checkbooks” of innocent people.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:40:41 +0000

As I said in my blog, if they want to monitor my online game subscriptions, my purchases at Newegg.com and my occasional night at the bar… go for it… and them monitoring those activities for anomalies that would indicate terroristic intent does in no way violate my privacy… thats like saying that the cashier at the grocery store violates my privacy because she sees what I buy.

By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator

Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:24:10 +0000

Cheney: Pentagon probing records OK

Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday the Pentagon and CIA are not violating people?s rights by exa