Whooooooooooo! Yeaaaaaaahhhhhh! Allllllrightttttt!!
We're all saved! We're all saved! Obama is president, and everything is going to be alright now! It's all going to be -Whoa - Wait a sec. What's this?
The DOJ did what? The Obama administration DOJ did what?
That's right, they fucked us. George Bush bent us all over, but Obama fucked us. Hell, Georgie boy was even going to lube us up a bit, but not Obama. He just rammed it in there, not caring who saw, or heard us scream.
Not only did the Department of Justice uphold the unconstitutional wreck of laws in the Patriot Act, but they strengthened them!
Yep. Now, not only can they completely invade your every speck of privacy by illegally tapping your phone whenever they please, but now, thanks to Obama, you can't even complain about it anymore!
See, the Patriot Act still allowed you to sue over wrongful wiretaps. That right has just been stripped.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, this new immunity goes further than anything established by Bush.
"Unlike with any other defendant, if you want to sue the federal government for illegal wiretapping you have to first go through an administrative procedure with the agency that did the wiretapping," the Foundation wrote. "That means, essentially, that you have to politely complain to the illegal wiretappers and tip them off to your legal strategy, and then wait for a while as they decide whether to do anything about it before you can sue them in court."
Government Immunity.
Constitutional scholar Glenn Greenwald says, "In other words, beyond even the outrageously broad 'state secrets' privilege invented by the Bush administration and now embraced fully by the Obama administration, the Obama DOJ has now invented a brand new claim of government immunity, one which literally asserts that the U.S. Government is free to intercept all of your communications (calls, emails and the like) and -- even if what they're doing is blatantly illegal and they know it's illegal -- you are barred from suing them unless they 'willfully disclose' to the public what they have learned."
Et tu, Obama?
