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Is the FISA Court constitutional?

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Judge Napolitano shows how the FISA court is both unconstitutional & unheeded even in those rare instances it doesn't grant general unconstitutional surveillance warrants. "After President Richard Nixon left office in 1974, a bipartisan congressional investigation discovered many of his constitutional excesses. Foremost among them was the use of FBI and CIA agents to spy on Americans in violation of federal law and the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution."
Both the Right and the Left (Bernie Sanders voted against the Patriot Act every time) agree on this over-reach, but the Administration is happy to tweak the law instead of throwing it out as it should.
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

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