NSA "too big" to obey the law

[VMI77]

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-secu ... ourt-order

In a remarkable legal filing on Friday afternoon, the NSA told a federal court that its spying operations are too massive and technically complex to comply with an order to preserve evidence. The NSA, in other words, now says that it cannot comply with the rules that apply to any other party before a court — the very rules that ensure legal accountability — because it is too big.

Too rich to jail, too big too fail, and now too big to have to follow the law in the first place. Law for us peasants, no law for our rulers.

[mojo84]

Wow! Scary stuff.

[tbrown]

Americans once knew what to do with government officials who got too big for their britches. Unfortunately, posting a picture oi 1774's The Bostonians Paying the Excise might violate forum rules.

[mamabearCali]

Here's the deal. The courts, the legislature, and even the executive branch are all there to provide citizens a route to deal with despotism without resorting to force. If none of those avenues work and the three work in concert to deprive citizens of the their God given rights among which are to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures, then eventually the tyranny will legitimately lead to rebellion.



Not something I want, but something those in power should be aware of. So if the executive branch insists on spying on it's citizens and the courts will do nothing and the legislature sits on their hands....we all end up with a volatile situation.

[mojo84]

When something gets too big to be controlled then that's when it should shut down and dismantled.

Prime example - our federal government