deputy director of national intelligence doesn't know the constitution

[someguy]

http://www.freepressinternational.com/nsa-4th-amendment.html

Click the black screen to start the movie, you'll see.

If it doesn't work, what essentially happens is a reporter asks the deputy director if it does in fact say in the 4th amendment of the Constitution that there must be 'probable cause for searching that doesn't violate an american's right against unlawful seizures/searches' (referring to the NSA wiretaps). The director says that it in fact does not say that there must be probable cause and it only and that 'if there's any amendment that the employees of the national security would know, it's the fourth.'

Well, let's quote the fourth amendment, shall we?

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon PROBABLE CAUSE, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

So it does in fact look like he knows the 4th!

[Raoul Duke]

It doesn't matter as long as he can bust those terrorist scum bags.

[echo_bravo]

Oh my God we are all DOOMED!!:rolleyes:

[someguy]

Yes, that's exactly what I was saying! Not the fact that having someone in charge of national security not knowing the most important rule of their job makes them incompetent on top of the illegal wiretapping, but I was saying that with him in charge we are doomed. Good work echo!

[QUENTIN]

Originally posted by echo_bravo
Oh my God we are all DOOMED!!:rolleyes:

Sarcasm is the last refuge of a man with nothing to say.

Yes, it DOES matter than the deputy director of intelligence does not know the constitutional amendment that relates most to his job. It shows a fundamental lack of understanding, knowledge, and caring about doing his job well. I wish people like this had to take a test to assume their roles. If a cop and a lawyer has to, shouldn't the president and the deputy director of national intelligence?

[darchangel]

Originally posted by echo_bravo
Oh my God we are all DOOMED!!:rolleyes:



Yeah...next thing you know, we might expect the president to know how things that relate to his job. :rolleyes:




~darchangel~

[electriclite]

Originally posted by QUENTIN
If a cop and a lawyer has to, shouldn't the president and the deputy director of national intelligence?


Yeah, but a cop and a lawyer have higher ups to remind them and reprimand them when they start to cross the line into Un-Constitutional territory.

Why should the Deputy Director of N.I. do so when his boss clearly thinks he doesn't have to either?

;) :( :mad:

[outsyder]

Cops and lawyers?

I'm a bit skeptical Joe Randombadge could explain to me the body and amendments of the US Constitution.

[Raoul Duke]

Originally posted by outsyder
Cops and lawyers?

I'm a bit skeptical Joe Randombadge could explain to me the body and amendments of the US Constitution.

I think he meant that if cops and lawyers have to know a lot about literature, etc. that pertains to their job and are quizzed on it, then so should the deputy director.

[darchangel]

Originally posted by Raoul Duke
I think he meant that if cops and lawyers have to know a lot about literature, etc. that pertains to their job and are quizzed on it, then so should the deputy director.


Yeah...don't immigrants who want to become naturalized citizens have to know all kinds of stuff about the Constiution and American history for their exams?

If people moving to this country have to know those things, shouldn't people in places of political power have to know them as well?



~darchangel~