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Brett Kavanaugh's defense of NSA phone surveillance looms as confirmation question
Washington Examiner ^ | July 9, 2018

Posted on 07/10/2018 9:26:56 AM PDT by deplorableindc

Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, forcefully defended the National Security Agency’s dragnet collection of domestic call records, alarming privacy advocates who view the collection as unconstitutional.

It’s not yet clear if Kavanaugh’s November 2015 concurrence while serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will factor prominently in his confirmation proceedings. But before he was nominated, progressive and conservative advocates expressed concern.

“I believe Judge Kavanaugh is an excellent judge, though certainly not a perfect one,” Ken Cuccinelli, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, told the Washington Examiner last week. "His Fourth Amendment perspective is troubling."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brettkavanaugh; kavanaugh; nsa; supremecourt

1 posted on 07/10/2018 9:26:56 AM PDT by deplorableindc
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To: deplorableindc

“Judge Brett Kavanaugh... forcefully defended the National Security Agency’s dragnet collection of domestic call records.”

Actually, there is not much choice when the politicians have cheerfully allowed in hundreds of thousands of questionable immigrants that enjoy plotting to destroy the Great Satan.


2 posted on 07/10/2018 9:30:44 AM PDT by odawg
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To: deplorableindc

It was about using META DATA as a tool for surveillance of potential terrorists, not what the NSA under Obama was doing, which I believe he would oppose.


3 posted on 07/10/2018 9:45:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Metadata was the camel’s nose under the tent...but NSA has Congress blackmailed so deeply at this point that the issue has become academic.


4 posted on 07/10/2018 9:48:18 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: cgbg

RE: Metadata was the camel’s nose under the tent...

OK, let’s say we don;t use meta data and we don’t do surveillance on phone calls to potential terrorists... what are the better alternatives to preventing terrorist attacks?


5 posted on 07/10/2018 9:50:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Stop funding terrorists—that would be a good start!


6 posted on 07/10/2018 9:51:46 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: deplorableindc

Frankly, I am more concerned about Obama and Comey unmasking political opponents to spy on them , than I am about unspecific metadata.


7 posted on 07/10/2018 9:55:24 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Plus the court is always stuck with the law congress passed. If congress passed crap then congress pass d crap. Not the courts responsibility to rewrite it


8 posted on 07/10/2018 9:55:46 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: deplorableindc

Swamper


9 posted on 07/10/2018 9:57:33 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: cgbg

RE: Stop funding terrorists—that would be a good start!

Tell Congress and the President that, not Kavanaugh.


10 posted on 07/10/2018 9:59:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t let them in the country to begin with and deport the ones that are here now. We know who the terroists are and where they come from. Raze the training camps, they call them mosques.


11 posted on 07/10/2018 10:02:40 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: SeekAndFind

There is absolutely nothing innocent about metadata


12 posted on 07/10/2018 10:03:23 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: deplorableindc

I trust the President on his pick but the nominee has some uphill explaining to do with this one. He is also a big supporter of stare decisis from what I’ve heard. Stare decisis is a good concept as long as you have honest jurists to start with, otherwise it’s just a mechanism to defend the tyranny of illegitimate decisions. In our case it’s the latter.


13 posted on 07/10/2018 10:13:16 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: SeekAndFind

#5, Well, lets see. I know of two very large Cases in the last few years where HUMAN INTEL. and a Federal agency could have stopped acts of terror. They had Intel but refused to act.

Boston Marathon Bombing

Parkland


14 posted on 07/10/2018 10:42:02 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: odawg; SeekAndFind; All

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“Judge Brett Kavanaugh... forcefully defended the National Security Agency’s dragnet collection of domestic call records.”
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Actually, there is not much choice when the politicians have cheerfully allowed in hundreds of thousands of questionable immigrants that enjoy plotting to destroy the Great Satan.
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I have yet to recall any govt agency/dept/program/service that HASN’T morphed beyond its authorized powers.

Nor any arrests by the FBI/DOJ, nor “correction” by the party of ‘small govt’


15 posted on 07/10/2018 10:53:59 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: deplorableindc

This is one of the decisions that I have to read through for myself the next few days. It is troubling to me, to say the least, at least on the surface.


16 posted on 07/10/2018 12:00:14 PM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: DesertRhino
There is absolutely nothing innocent about metadata

... and a lot more specificity in it than most people want to believe.

17 posted on 07/10/2018 12:02:44 PM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: deplorableindc

My gut instinct says no to kavanagh. His would be a swing vote.

The Constitution does NOT allow for spying on people.

Too many weird issues with this guy. I have a feeling Trump has a better one behind the curtain.


18 posted on 07/10/2018 12:51:37 PM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: deplorableindc

This guy needs extreme vetting - from the right.


19 posted on 07/10/2018 2:14:14 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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