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Please show me what part of the Constitution guarantees a "Right to Privacy". The 4th amendment protects us from "unreasonable" search and seizure. Please cite a recent news article or event in which the 4th amendment was violated as a result of the Patriot Act.
The Patriot Act was created to protect us from terrorist attacks. I'm sure the leniency that it grants for federal agents to collect intelligence has saved thousands of lives. Some people still live in a pre-9/11 mindset.
Mr. Behney most likely doesn't know the Constitution from a hole in the ground. At least that is the impression he gives.
Again, to quote Reagan: "there you go again" with insults instead of issues.
Court Strikes Down 2 Key Patriot Act Provisions | Threat Level | Wired.com
A federal district court judge struck down two key pillars of the Patriot Act Wednesday, ruling that using a secret spying court to wiretap and secretly search Americans’ homes for criminal prosecutions violates the Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Federal district court judge Ann Aiken struck down the government’s ability to get orders from the secret spy court for anything other than acquiring foreign intelligence activities, saying that using that court and its lowered standards — instead of getting a traditional criminal wiretap order — violates the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. The ruling applies to Patriot Act changes to wiretapping laws and to so-called sneak-and-peak searches, where the government can search someone’s home secretly and never have to disclose the search to the individual.
The ruling comes out of a lawsuit brought by Portland attorney Brandon Mayfield, who was arrested by the FBI shortly after train bombings in Madrid, Spain. The FBI publicly said Mayfield’s prints matched the bomb, though Mayfield had no passport and the Spanish police told the FBI they did not believe the print was a match. The government approached the secret spying court, saying that Mayfield was an "agent of a foreign power" which allowed the government to get warrants to secretly search his home and office, as well as bug his house and eavesdrop on him, for use in a criminal court. Prior to the Patriot Act, searches authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act had to have a primary purpose of gathering foreign intelligence, rather than prosecuting a person.