The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

While I feel both the Benghazi and IRS stories are getting blown out-of-proportion, I feel the Department of Justice-AP surveillance case isn't. Unfortunately, as reported by Timothy Lee of The Washington Post , it appears as if the DOJ's actions were legal. In Lee's article, he reported the following: "But here’s what’s really scary: The Justice Department’s actions are likely perfectly legal. U.S. law allows the government to engage in this type of surveillance—on media organizations or anyone else—without meaningful judicial oversight. The key here is a legal principle known as the 'third party doctrine,' which says that users don’t have Fourth Amendment rights protecting information they voluntarily turn over to someone else. Courts have said that when you dial a phone number, you are voluntarily providing information to your phone company, which is then free to share it with the government." I sincerely hope that in light of this recent report, ...