Ughh
Kaus makes a terrible argument for the legality and rationality of our government listening in on all of our phone calls and reading our emails. Just because some jackass person with a scanner does it (as Kaus states) doesn't mean that it is right. Sickos peer through their binoculars into people's houses that doesn't mean that our government should be allowed to.
His advocation for lowering the standards of obtaining search warrants and allowing mass warrants is puzzling and wrong. Already FISA allows the government to spy on American citizens for three entire days before obtaining a warrant, I fail to see how you can make that provision even more lenient without dismantling the 4th amendment in our Constitution, and Kaus's idea that the government should be allowed to search American citizen en masse with only limited supervision is chilling.
Kaus basically wants a return to the days where J Edger Hoover's FBI had unlimited authority to spy on American citizens and much abused their power, albeit this time the spyer (?) would be the NSA. Not a good solution.
His advocation for lowering the standards of obtaining search warrants and allowing mass warrants is puzzling and wrong. Already FISA allows the government to spy on American citizens for three entire days before obtaining a warrant, I fail to see how you can make that provision even more lenient without dismantling the 4th amendment in our Constitution, and Kaus's idea that the government should be allowed to search American citizen en masse with only limited supervision is chilling.
Kaus basically wants a return to the days where J Edger Hoover's FBI had unlimited authority to spy on American citizens and much abused their power, albeit this time the spyer (?) would be the NSA. Not a good solution.
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