Holder is out of Control.

OriginalShroom

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Why is Holder and FBI Director James Comey being allowed to get away with this kind of crap??



FBI Cuts Internet Pose As Repairmen To Perform a Warrantless Search- Is it Legal The Free Thought Project

We’ll dress up as technicians, we’ll come inside, we’ll claim to be fixing the Internet connection — even though we can’t, ’cause we broke it from outside — and then we’ll just look around and see what we see.”


The agents, upon entry to the villa to “fix” the Internet service, covertly recorded everything they could while inside. While in the residence they saw the men looking at betting odds on their laptops while watching World Cup soccer, both of which are completely legal activities in Las Vegas.
The recordings were used in a criminal complaint to obtain a search warrant.

The feds knew what they had done was illegal and attempted to obscure the facts of the case from the judge by hiding any indication that the federal agents were the ones that cut the Internet lines to the villa.
“They just managed not to tell the magistrate what it is they had actually done,” says Goldstein.

Goldstein made note that he and his clients never would have known that it was the FBI agents who cut the line were it not for one slip of the tongue that the agents made — recorded on tape — when talking among themselves. He adds that when the defense asked for further recordings, the FBI provided two blank CDs, claiming the recording devices malfunctioned.

“There’s no real way of looking at this other than to say that it is a cover-up,” contends Goldstein.
Professor of Law at George Washington University, Stephen Saltzburg told NPR,
“The theory behind this search is scary. It means the government can cut off your service, intentionally, and then pretend to be a repair person, and then while they’re there, they spend extra time searching your house. It is scary beyond belief.”
This isn’t simply limited to the Internet either, if accepted by the court, electricity, plumbing, water lines or any other service you could imagine, could be cut off to a residence.
In a motion to suppress the warrantless search, the defense stated:
The notion that an individual “consents” to such searches—so that the government is free to ignore the Fourth Amendment’s explicit warrant requirement—is, in a word, absurd. Our lives cannot be private—and our personal relationships intimate—if each physical connection that links our homes to the outside world doubles as a ready-made excuse for the government to conduct a secret, suspicionless, warrantless search. Only a few remote log cabins lack any Internet, electric, gas, water, cable, or telephone service. But the Constitution does not require us to sever all those connections—and live as hermitic luddites—to protect ourselves from the government’s prying eyes and secret cameras. A ruling upholding these intrusions would cause innocent Americans to live their daily lives burdened with the palpable sense that their government is regularly scheming to spy on them in their homes.
 

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