Trump Netanyahu Spy Obama Aides Wives Kids Mossad Israel IDF Black Cube "Secret Origins Of The Trump Investigation: Code Name Crossfire Hurricane" "It Doesn't Matter [The GOP] Is Dying Anyway" "The Fish Rots From The Head" WH Lies Trump Tantrum At Inept DHS Nielsen Not About Voter Promises Kept Swamp Trump In Courts FOIAs In Person Petitions For Redress Of Grievances Mr. Bezos Sue Trump To SCt WaPo Assets Attacks Are Federal Prior Restraint

One of Trump’s many nemeses. Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images

UPDATED to 26 May 2018

       Monday, 2 April 2018, WASHINGTON, DC - The Washington Post has been under direct attack by the United States Government among originally print-based newspapers most notably with the New York Times throughout the duration of the present presidential administration. All concerned with affairs of State including the judiciary and doubtless many who are not both at home and even abroad doubtless are familiar with at least the most recurrent themes and content of the President's official statements under his full and sole authority as holder of the Office of the President of the United States of America spread far and wide by his every public use of Twitter to communicate directly to tens of millions of people thereafter subject to unlimited amplification and further dissemination.
       No matter in any case here because one could be expected to take judicial notice of the fact that all in the position of or associated with the ownership and control of publication, editorial and all other work necessary to the composition and distribution of the Washington Post including all of its content are fully aware of each and every threat and attempted intimidation directed by the President of the United States at the Washington Post which in this case to the best of our knowledge would ultimately be at the single person of Mr. Jeff Bezos.
       The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment believes that even much earlier but certainly now with the frequency and intensity of those official unretracted threats from the highest office holder of the United States Government admittedly intended to harass, inhibit and restrain the press in this case the Washington Post regardless of whether it be by calling it out by name or in any other identifiable way or its owner Mr. Bezos or another asset or enterprise of his most recently it being Amazon all of which in the instant case are equally noxious to the Constitution being attempts at prior restraint the most abhorrent form of censorship under the First Amendment.
       Here it might be considered of even more pernicious intent than the most seminal adjudicated case of notorious U.S. Government prior restraint because it ultimately is directed not just at restraining some specific news or editorial items of publication but more fundamentally at destroying the entire publication of the Washington Post by destroying the asset base of its ownership. The willingness of the President to use this type of tactic against a publication has been demonstrated before in his capacity as a private citizen himself publicizing such results in private litigation but most recently just last week on occasions when the President wrongly used his official statements (in this case unsurprisingly lies although that is largely irrelevant) as weapons to directly reduce the net worth of Mr. Bezos by causing for a time at least the stock price of Amazon to drop.
       This is an implicit intimidation, threat or restraint directed at least in part as any similar act of the President's now must be taken to be similarly against the Washington Post in its place among that most sacrosanct of institutions in this nation being the press recognized as essential to the survival of democracy as established under the United States Constitution:

This is very clearly defined in Supreme Court case law, most prominently in the Pentagon Papers case. As Justice Hugo Black explained in his concurrence: “Both the history and language of the First Amendment support the view that the press must be left free to publish news, whatever the source, without censorship, injunctions, or prior restraints. In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government.”     

"The Washington Post Stories That Preceded Trump's Tweets Against Amazon" by Marc Fisher, Tim Meko and Kevin Schaul, 5 April 2018, The Washington Post  https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/trump-tweets-amazon-washington-post/?utm_term=.073f2d4e8cc0 Graphics

"Trump Attacks Amazon Again After Washington Post Runs Unflattering Story" by Benjamin Hart, 31 March 2018, New York Magazine Daily Intelligencer  http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-attacks-amazon-again-after-post-runs-negative-story.html

"Trump Attacks Amazon, Again, Over U.S. Postal Rates" by Reuters Staff, 31 March 2018, Reuters  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-trump/trump-attacks-amazon-again-over-u-s-postal-rates-idUSKBN1H70MC?il=0

"Donald Trump Attacks Amazon's 'Post Office Scam' On Twitter -- Again" by Jamie Ducharme, 31 March 2018, TIME Magazine http://time.com/5223501/donald-trump-amazon-post-office-twitter/ Video 1:28

Related: Corrupt FCC Chair Agit Pai OKs Sinclair Broadcasting "Trump TV" Nationwide Local News Dominance
https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo Video 1:38

"Trump Tirade Is Culmination Of Immigration Frustration" by Michael D. Shear, The New York Times, 11 May 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/us/politics/trump-nielsen-immigration.html

Quote 1 [Adapted]: WH Special Asst. Kelly Sadler Mocks Sen. McCain For Opposing CIA Haspel   10 Nov 2018
Quote 2 "Morning Joe" Scarborough:  Analysis Of Above Comment Coming From The Trump WH   11 Nov 2018

Days after the F.B.I. closed its investigation into Hillary Clinton in 2016, agents began scrutinizing the presidential campaign of her Republican rival, Donald J. Trump.CreditAl Drago for The New York Times

"Secret Origins Of The Trump Investigation: Code Name Crossfire Hurricane" by Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos, The New York Times, 16 May 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/crossfire-hurricane-trump-russia-fbi-mueller-investigation.html

"Here's Your Unclassified Briefing On Secret Government Code Names" by Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, The New York Times, 16 May 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/us/politics/fbi-code-names-investigations-crossfire-hurricane.html

President Trump accused the F.B.I., without evidence, of planting a mole inside his campaign to undermine his presidential run. But the F.B.I. in fact dispatched a confidential informant to meet with Trump campaign advisers as it began its investigation into possible links between his campaign and Russia.CreditTom Brenner/The New York Times

"Secret FBI Source For Russia Investigation Met With Three Trump Advisers During Campaign" by Robert Costa, Carol D. Leonnig,, Tom Hamburger and Devlin Barrett, with contributors Alice Crites, Shane Harris, Rosalind S. Helderman, Ellen Nakashima and Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post, 18 May 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-fbi-source-for-russia-investigation-met-with-three- trump-advisers-during-campaign/2018/05/18/9778d9f0-5aea-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html?  Videos 1:58 3:49

"F.B.I. Used Informant To Investigate Russia Ties, Not To Spy, As Trump Claimed" by Adam Goldman, Mark Mazzetti and Matthew Rosenberg, with contributors Nicholas Fandos, Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Benner and Eileen Sullivan, The New York Times, 18 May 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/politics/trump-fbi-informant-russia-investigation.html

"Trump's Lawyer And Chief Of Staff Appear At Briefings On F.B.I.'s Russia Informant" by Nicholas Fandos And Katie Benner, with contributors Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, Adam Goldman, Thomas Kaplan and Charlie Savage, The New York Times, 24 May 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/us/politics/fbi-informant-russia-congress-briefings.html

"Inside Black Cube And Its Work To Scuttle The Iran Deal" MSNBC Richard Engel On Assignment, 25 May 2018 (Indicted Netanyahu Team Iran Trump Hire Mossad Israeli IDF Black Cube" Creeps" Ilegally On US Soil Stalk Surveil Harass Threaten US Citizens Obama Aides Wives Parents Little Children Violate US / International Law)
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/inside-black-cube-and-its-work-to-scuttle-the-iran-nuclear-deal-1242299971972?playlist=associated Video 11:22

"Trump Aides Reportedly Hired An Israeli Intelligence Firm To Dig Up Dirt On Obama's Iran Deal Team" by Rosie Peper, Business Insider, 7 May 2017
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-team-hired-israeli-intelligence-to-spy-on-obama-iran-deal-black-cube-2018-5?

"How Far Did Trump Allies Go To Discredit Supporters Of The Iran Deal" by Paul Waldman, The Washington Post, 7 May 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/07/how-far-did-trump-allies-go-to-discredit-supporters-of-the-iran-deal/? Video 2:35

"Israel Intel Firm Denies It Was Hired To Discredit Obama Officials" by Oliver Holmes, The Guardian, 7 May 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/07/israel-intel-firm-black-cube-trump-obama-iran-nuclear-deal

"Opponents Of Iran Deal Hired Investigators To Dig Up Dirt On Obama Aide" by Roman D. Shear and Ronan Bergman, The New York Times, 7 May 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/politics/iran-deal-benjamin-rhodes-black-cube.html

A mural by Charles Ward at the Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Trenton

CreditCarol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

WaPo Raves Nakasone "Will Head" NSA And U.S. Cyber Command (Pending Nakasone Confirmation)
       Interested readers can go to the Washington Post article linked to here below about the Trump administration nominee Army Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone to be Director of the NSA and US Cyber Command (CyberCom) especially in the context of the fraught relationship set out in the top portion of the post directly above it the article stood out as being an uncharacteristically uncritical article for the Washington Post  to publish not offering any notable independent critique of the nominee.
       It article linked to below also could be read as if Mr. Nakasone already held the new position because although it did note he was not yet confirmed the article easily could be confused as some congratulatory press release prepared by the Pentagon's press office. No aspersions whatsoever are intended as to the nominee nor the reporter moreover in recognition that in certain areas especially such as intelligence / national security a publication may have to adhere to different standards as to the source's degree of editorial control so as to remain in good standing to publish and maintain the best public access possible in areas of especial sensitivity which otherwise might not be reported at all.


Army Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, expected to become the next head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, at a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on March 1. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)

o https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/incoming-nsa-chief-has-a-reputation-for-winning-all-the-important-fights-russia-will-be-his-biggest-test-yet/2018/03/31/ee943ef0-23d6-11e8-badd-7c9f29a55815_story.html?utm_term=.4ac12411fb13

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UPDATE2 Google Criminal CIA Partner Conspires In Illegal Preview Of Draft Blog Content, Unlawful Prior Restraint And Reader Access Denial Of Anti-War, "Explicit", "Intelligence" Content Of U.S. Government Agency Disclosures Of Crimes, Harassment Extends To U.S. Pathetic Removal Of Liar NSA Menace Symbol And Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Honor Tribute In 10th Year Since Death

     Tuesday, 30 June 2015. MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google which is a joint venture partner of the CIA as well as being partly owned by the CIA through acknowledged and unacknowledged front companies of late again has been limiting readers access to the Ninth Amendment through acts of obstruction of readers' access perpetrated internally and/or externally by Google itself and/or in complicity and conspiracy with other parties. The efforts of Google to limit readers' access to site content is readily apparent and visible to readers who can see for themselves if they do reach this site that they now only are able to read posts from roughly three days totaling about five posts at the time of this writing pre-publication which do no nearly fill the body of the so-called "landing page" of the Ninth Amendment. As recently as just past months readers might recall finding a full ten to fifteen posts published on this first page. [UPDATE 2] It further has become provably apparent that Google illegally reviews and unlawfully allows certain as yet unidentified other parties to review draft blog post "preview" working drafts under consideration for internal purposes only which have not been published by the Ninth Amendment therefore effectively spying on it violating privacy and other rights of publisher without reservation and without waiving any right whatsoever to take any action deemed appropriate without limitation.
      [UPDATE]  In the longtime spirit of letting no abuse go unrecognized no matter how tedious nor juvenile the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment wishes to call to readers' attention the fact that the N.S.A. logo honoring the dedicated work of that fine despicable agency and its dedicated tech nerds who presumably could not become drone "pilots" either having left the N.S.A. to again become legitimate hackers or gone too rotten presumably due to incompetence or brain damage which long has graced the right margin of this landing page mysteriously in recent weeks has disappeared completely without a trace not as a result of any intentional action of this publication coincidentally at the same time that a list of live 24/7 newslinks at the bottom portion of this landing page with the recent addition of a website which rapidly reports and adds each new N.S.A. abuse also has disappeared totally without a trace including all other links along with it doubtless to throw off the trail of any suspicion as to the N.S.A. Never have we been so outraged as since after a years-long series of posts chronicling the criminal moronic mean-spirited actions of bought and paid for indicted Liar Idiot Texas Former Governor Rick "Payback" Perry re-candidate brain dead still standing for President of the United States within hours of his profoundly sad announcement that he would not burden the great Lone Star state with yet another attempt at its governorship the private email account mailboxes of the editors of this publication suddenly were found to be filled with all manner of amusing "confessions" by the editors of this publication to a rich variety of persons and institutions with whom we were apparently believed to have relationships capable of further souring of misdeeds never committed as well as just oblique enough threats referencing potential dangers to children of those known and loved by us.
     But certainly the most savage and vicious act in this most recent depraved hackattack was the removal from the Ninth Amendment of the dedication at the foot of this publication to Dr. Hunter S. Thompson who died 10 years ago in 2005. It is replaced here by the words of his widow Anita in a recent audio Colorado Public Radio interview in which she still lives in the couple's home at Owl Farm in Woody Creek, Colorado but has left all of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's work areas untouched for ten years as a private museum for which she is scheduling visitors starting in August 2015. https://www.cpr.org/news/story/hunter-s-thompsons-widow-anita-talks-about-gonzo-legacy-and-museum
     We make it clear that the apparent gross curtailments of posts being presented on the "landing page" come with the publisher of the Ninth Amendment having taken no action on its own to so limit these posts but rather using the controls supplied by Google to attempt without success to remedy what is effectively censorship. Attempts to contact Google repeatedly by the publisher have gone unheeded with no response nor change again filling the "landing page" with what in the publisher's opinion are an appropriate number of posts as formerly appeared.
     Google is being subjected widely to massive enforcement actions throughout Europe including for several issues related to claimed market dominance by European regulators of up to 90% there although Google long here in the United States has had a free hand to do virtually as Google pleases largely due to the lassitude of the Department of Justice in enforcing this country's anti-trust laws being left to the whims of private attorneys to try to protect the rights of consumers as well as Google's long-term acknowledged partnership with the CIA including in the mapping of the earth known wherever possible to encompass the private curtilage and grounds of people's homes (just like their private images and information in Google search engine results) of course without anyone's permission to do so.
     Now Google is demonstrating the dangers that occur from letting one company have so much power. Here the Ninth Amendment notes that it is essentially powerless remaining at this web address to fight censorship in its longtime publication with Blogger. As is not uncommon with companies grown into "market monsters" now that Google is in control of a vast portion of the market it has gone from a company which grew large on the pretext of being open to all with minimal limitation Google recently announced that it would remove sites with "explicit" content which it always previously had allowed.
     As for the Ninth Amendment which often has posts investigating and reporting on abuses particularly in Executive Branch agencies such as the CIA unpunished for torture and the NSA unpunished for vast Constitutional violations as well as all levels and agencies purportedly engaged in "law enforcement" it finds itself with its public content which is most accessible to readers on the first "landing page" now to be sharply limited. If the Ninth Amendment publishes a new post it finds at the bottom of the landing page that it loses another current post not yet ready to be relegated to the realm of the "previous" posts.
     The Ninth Amendment entire editorial board decided to publish this post despite the content it expects to lose at the bottom of its "landing page" relegated to a "previous" page unless Google would relent from its illegal censorship practices constituting among things civil rights violations and if done in complicity with a U.S. government agency also without limitation constitutional violations most obviously of First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and of the press. Needless to say and plainly to see that has not occurred as Google given the opportunity has remedied nothing but continues in its illegal and repugnant practices.
     The decision of the editorial board to bring these matters to the public's attention became final upon preliminary research showing that Google in part through its "Adsense" program has for some time been using that program and other pressure to prevent Blogger publishers from publishing anti-war content as is made unambiguous in the link below. The link is to a Blogger publisher's post including an exchange with the publisher in which Google itself clearly acknowledges Google's censorship apparently also extending to Google's insistence on pre-approval of content.
     To those familiar with First Amendment law such advance power to review and reject another's speech and publication is a most dangerous type of censorship called "prior restraint" as it prevents a publisher from publishing material specified by the censor before any member of the public may assess it which of all censorship is found to be most repugnant to the courts as when the U.S. Supreme Court permitted the continued publication without pre-review of the "Pentagon Papers". If the Supreme Court allowed that with the continuing release by the press of the contents of supposedly "secret" papers concerning an ongoing military "conflict" one would think Google could let its publishers do as they wish per Google's contractual, statutory and other legal duties without limitation especially as it does so from the vantage of being a CIA government-affiliated agency implicating constitutional rights directly also likely in violation of a multitude of anti-trust laws that in the United States have long given Google unfettered unfair market advantage for which all others will pay either now or later.

http://antiwar.com/blog/2015/03/20/google-doubles-down-demands-review-of-all-antiwar-com-content/

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UPDATED: Fugitive Founder Julian Assange And Wikileaks Consider Legal Action Against U.S. Government And Google For Illegal Search And Seizure Of Gmails And Other Data Without Notice From Google Of Wkiileaks' Journalists

       Wednesday, 28 January 2015. GENEVA - Wikilleaks and its fugitive editor Jullian Assange through one of their lawyers Michael A. Ratner is demanding information and details about the search and seizure of three of Wikileaks' "whistleblowing" journalists' emails and other data by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and provided by Google pursuant to warrant(s) issued over two-and-one-half years ago. Since the subjects never were notified by Google of this demand for their private communications and data they thus were prevented from fighting the warrants in court. The New York Times in the below linked article reports that they are considering initiating a court action now against DOJ and Google related to this action and the failure to notify them.
       Google Chairman Eric Schmidt issued a statement that it was the "policy" of Google to inform parties in instances where such information was demanded but implied that despite Google's desire to do so the failure here was due to a gag order issued against Google "which sadly happens quite often". Google previously has taken legal action against the Government as to such demands for private information as well as the Government's wholesale collection of such information by "grabbing it out of the air" as in the well-publicized case of the NSA breaking Google's code for internal data point-to-point transmissions as part of the NSA's collection of metadata on all Americans and others without regard for "reasonable suspicion", "probable cause", nor any other limitation.
       However the facts here are instructive to all members of the public with Google accounts as they seem to demonstrate Google whatever claims Google may make as to the security of Gmail and other "private" data apparently it in reality is not willing ultimately to go to any efforts whatsoever to help protect the privacy of individuals' Gmail and other "private" data from disclosure to the Government. Google's Eric Schmidt gave no indication at all that Google makes any effort in such cases to fight a Government "gag order" so as even to alert Google account holders so that they can mount a legal defense as to even wrongfully issued search and seizure orders in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Therefore false claims aside Google rolls over immediately without any fight even regarding giving notice to individuals that the Government has sought their Gmails and "private" data. In conclusion Google gave the Government individuals' Gmail and other "private" data without any fight whatsoever because when faced with a gag order Google did not even contest it so that the individuals could at least mount their own defense.
       "Gag orders" are particularly anathema to a free society which places a premium on freedom of speech and the press and are a form of "prior restraint" which is repugnant to the most core values of the United States Constitution. Since the Wikileaks' journalists' Gmails and other "private" data unfortunately entrusted to Google obviously were in no danger of being destroyed by the journalists and it is not as if since the disclosures of Edward Snowden especially Wikileaks is unaware it has been a prime target of U.S. Government presumably officials unwilling to operate in the public eye but prosecute whomever they can so as to shut then up so as to continue to operate protected by the "dark cloak of secrecy" hidden from public scrutiny the issuance of "gag orders" here is yet another example demonstating that they know they likely not only cannot withstand public scrutiny but even a legitimate challenge leveled against them in open court.
       This is but one more example of why individuals should consider applying for an invitation to a free ProtonMail email account based in Switzerland as described in any earlier post as others such as Hushmail and Statmail ultimately are susceptible to government intrusion whether by pressure on the Canadian government in British Columbia in the case of Hushmail or otherwise as to supposedly "secure" email encrypted accounts. Likewise if computer users do not wish to be tracked by governments or anyone else the stand-alone favorite is the "Tor" browser which can be researched on Wikepedia and other sites and freely downloaded from the internet.
       Despite Google's well-publicized seemingly antagonistic relationship to the U.S. Government executive branch in this area this must at the same time be tempered by Google's widely known ventures with the executive branch. One example is with the C.I.A. through that agency's In-Q-Tel investment arm providing services to several national intelligence agencies here in a joint venture with Google Ventures in the web monitoring package of the company Recorded Future described as the "the ultimate tool for open-source intelligence". Open-source intelligence is publicly available information from a wide variety of sources which can be amassed and organized to provide reputedly valuable intelligence information by any party. Readers interested in more detail regarding the above and other national security agency investment relationships with Google are referred initially to the wired.com article at the link http://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/.
       Finally as to the Obama Administration's DOJ under departing Attorney General Eric Holder that department has undertaken unprecedented efforts to prosecute sources of unauthorized leaks of "security" information notably including aggressively using legal process against journalists and the press to attempt to force them to reveal their sources. This was demonstrated most recently in the subject of the immediately preceding Ninth Amendment post regarding the espionage conviction earlier this week of former C.I.A. agent Jeffrey Sterling which included efforts ultimately dropped to force New York Times reporter James Risen to reveal his source whose identity in the end was identified not by Mr. Risen but by reportedly very strong circumstantial evidence presented at Mr. Sterling's trial.
       The circumstances of these various legal actions and others in their totality would seem to point to a certain amount of ambiguity in the Obama Administration's perceived espoused concerns for the protection of privacy and freedom of speech rights of individuals and the press versus the reality of the unprecedented or continuing actions of the Obama Administration that seemingly intrude on them to a degree rarely or never seen before.
       
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/world/europe/wikileaks-assails-google-and-the-us.html?mabReward=A4&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

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Run Amok FBI And Other Federal "National Security" Domestic Spying Outfits Get Hypocrites Obama And Holder Appeal Assist Against Tech Companies Including Google, Microsoft Corp., Facebook Winning Suit Against Federal Government Issuing Prior Restraint Gag Orders In Attempt To Prevent Release By Techs Of Lists Of Unwelcome Federal Unconstitutional Demands For Customer Information, Twitter Too Sues Federal SuperSnoops For Breadth Of Spying Imposed On Twitter After Failed "Talks"

       Wednesday, 8 October 2014, SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Not being satisfied with Courts allowing their widespread unconstitutional snooping on and invading the privacy of all Americans with neither warrants, court orders, or even articulated suspicion hypocritical Obama/Holder supported U.S Government federal spying agencies now having lost a lower court decision allowing tech companies in unwelcome receipt of such orders to invade their customers privacy and "directing" them to engage in this clear fundamental constitutional rights invasion on behalf of the federal government at least under the lower federal court's order to disclose such unwelcome requests and disclosures to customers including even in aggregate numbers because such blanket "gag orders" constitute "prior restraint" which is the most repugnant restraint in jurisprudence of core first amendment rights including to freedom of speech and the press.
       Since these federal spying agencies which hypocrite President Barack Obama and Attorney General Holder exactly as promised not to do when Obama first ran for Presidential office seeking to distinguish himself from former not-elected "President" Bush have not been restrained but instead continued to be supported as official State policy to run ever further totally amok even in the face of even worsening abuse of the People's constitutional and other legal rights much less forget about moral and ethical restraints (terms that long ago fell out of the State's vocabulary) naturally they again are screaming "national security" as they insist on trampling one right after another even in such ridiculous circumstances as below. Someone needs to tattoo Benjamin Franklin's admonition on these dangerous idiots' foreheads. Twitter too agrees reportedly having given up on lengthy "negotiations" with the State for ordering the use of social media as yet another spying tentacle of untold proportions with the State now having totally alienated yet more of the great minds of a generation with the Federal State conspiracy of dunces at the table no doubt endlessly repeating the two words left they know "national security" ad nauseum forcing disgusted Twitter finally yesterday to throw up its hands and just sue the federal government as well.
       In the appeal scheduled to be heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco today Federal spy agencies including the FBI plan to expound on the same old tired arguments that their attempts not only to proceed with their clearly unconstitutional demands of telecom, internet and tech companies but even to "gag" unwilling companies from disclosing the fact of the demands even in the aggregate as a threat calling "such secrecy 'vital' in national security cases because public disclosure could interfere with the probe or endanger someone's physical safety," which phrase the Ninth Amendment could just bet the State cut and pasted out of about one million other specious fictitious "legal briefs". This with more details is reported today in the Reuters article linked to below. Sure aggregate disclosure of such information is going to "endanger someone's physical safety".  And if readers believe that we have got a whole warehouse of "like new" United States Constitutions that are no longer in use by the current federal government that we would like to sell you. Not really please do not be in touch.
       It should be obvious we would think to most at this point the bigger threat to anyone's physical safety is not these telecom, internet, and tech companies being forced to snoop by federal spy agencies that have proven incapable of doing their jobs the right (and incidentally legal) way not being "gagged" from disclosing even aggregates of lists of such "requests by force" in violation of yet further fundamental core Constitutional rights.
       The biggest threat to the American people's personal safety, the Nation's security, and everyone's liberty with the continuing State assaults decimating the sacred text of the Constitution which ironically is the only compact which affords the State any legitimacy in the first place as revealed particularly by continuing careful disclosures of the State's seemingly endless voluminous mountains of misdeeds and attempted cover-ups from Edward Snowden's vast library of cautiously distributed documents has now been revealed to all as none other than these State federal executive "national security" agencies run wild out-of-control screaming "fire" in every crowded theater and hollering "national security" (like the loser alcoholic morphine crazed Senator Joseph McCarthy and his opportunistic posse whose "Red Baiting" no one even the venerable (at that time) Supreme Court dared rein in for fear of life, liberty and career until McCarthy simply virtually disintegrated into the nothing at all that he was) in every legal case the Feds wish to strong-arm the judiciary into backing down and letting the "national security" hysteria junkies "win" for fear that otherwise the Court doubtless will be ordering the end of the world.
       These are nothing more than cases where as in the usual course of human experience those with far too little experience are allowed way too much power and thus will use it inevitably until they are "corrupted absolutely" as long ago observed by Lord Acton so here now they wish to holler on about spying domestically on ordinary citizens that is each of us (and doubtless one day themselves as well) with near zero correlation to any valid "national security" concern that they are likely to discover. These are cases the Department of Justice would have been ashamed to argue in better times and so it should be now. And what the heck are they so eager to be "probing" all the time anyway. Can one not go to jail or some rehabilitative institution or at least a proctologist for doing so much probing.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/08/us-security-telecommunications-hearing-idUSKCN0HX0IN20141008?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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