[richlevy]

Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
Use cash and don't leave a trail. Because the FBI is watching everything. How could your expenitures be misconstrued? Easy, put your receipts together and think of the wildest tale you can to explain them. Don't you think a person that has to justify their job by finding suspicious spending could do the same? Be afraid, be very afraid. Oh, where in hell is my tinfoil hat.

The awful part is the lack of judicial oversight and the fact that they do not even have to give Congress a total of the number of times the act was used. This places all power in the Executive branch, which is insanely dangerous as well as violating the spirit of the Constitution.

My guess is that if this makes it up to the Supreme Court it will be defeated 6-3 or better.

Of course, in order to challenge the law you have to know you have been subjected to it to gain standing in the court. Since everything is anonymous, this will be difficult. This will all come to a head when someone violates the gag order and goes public.

It's amazing that the White House has become so aggressive in breaking the Fourth Amendment while hiding behind a wall of secrecy and executive privilige built to pre-Nixon levels.

It might take another public abuse of the system, like Nixon's, to bring it back under reign. What really pisses me off is the Republicans in Congress deferring so much of their power and responsibility to the President. Is party unity so much more important than duty?