Clapper is a Clapper-less Bell - A government looking for witches will find them

This is something out of Franz Kafka's "The Trial". m/r

Here is the dunce Obama put in charge of all our National Security, speaking before the Senate, on the Shutdown:

Official Warns Shutdown Could Make Spies Double Agents

 Fears that unpaid intelligence agents could be flipped

An ongoing government shutdown heightens the risk that American intelligence officers could be flipped as double agents, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday.

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/02/official-warns-shutdown-could-make-spies-double-agents/#ixzz2gfqt3nz1

Does this mean that the Employees, Agents, Spies and Operatives in the NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS and the rest of the Black-ops are a bunch un-American, Ant-American, Traitorous, Self Involved, Money Grubbing Bureaucrats who put their own petty interests above the security of the U. S.?

Is Clapper judging the American Intelligence Services based on his own personal standards? 

YET IN MIDST OF ALL THIS HAND WRINGING ABOUT THE FURLOUGHS IN OUR SPY COMMUNITY, THE NSA CONTINUES ITS RELENTLESS INFORMATION GATHERING ON US! m/r

A government looking for witches will find them | Fox News

By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Published October 03, 2013

FoxNews.com

While the nation’s political class has been fixated on a potential government shutdown in Washington this week, the NSA has continued to spy on all Americans and by its ambiguity and shrewd silence seems to be acknowledging slowly that the scope of its spying is truly breathtaking.

The Obama administration is of the view that the NSA can spy on anyone anywhere. The president believes that federal statutes enable the secret FISA court to authorize the NSA to capture any information it desires about any persons without identifying the persons and without a showing of probable cause of criminal behavior on the part of the persons to be spied upon. This is the same mindset that the British government had with respect to the colonists. It, too, believed that British law permitted a judge in secret in Britain to issue general warrants to be executed in the colonies at the whim of British agents.

General warrants do not state the name of the place to be searched or the person or thing to be seized, and they do not have the necessity of individualized probable cause as their linchpin. They simply authorize the bearer to search wherever he wishes for whatever he wants. General warrants were universally condemned by colonial leaders across the ideological spectrum -- from those as radical as Sam Adams to those as establishment as George Washington, and from those as individualistic as Thomas Jefferson to those as big-government as Alexander Hamilton. We know from the literature of the times that the whole purpose of the Fourth Amendment -- with its requirements of individualized probable cause and specifically identifying the target -- is to prohibit general warrants.

And yet, the FISA court has been issuing general warrants and the NSA executing them since at least 2004.

The Obama administration is of the view that the NSA can spy on anyone anywhere.

Last week we learned in a curious colloquy between members of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and Gen. Keith Alexander and Deputy Attorney General James Cole that it is more likely than not that the FISA court has permitted the NSA to seize not only telephone, Internet and texting records, but also utility bills, credit card bills, banking records, social media records and digital images of mail, and that there is no upper limit on the number of Americans’ records seized or the nature of those records.

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