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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: Hoodat on July 10, 2021, 02:25:13 am
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Weissmann: ‘Anti-American’ for Tucker Carlson to Complain About NSA Surveillance
PAM KEY | 8 Jul 2021
Andrew Weissmann, the lead prosecutor for former special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson was “anti-American” for questioning being monitored by the NSA.
Weissmann said, “If you think about what Tucker Carlson could have done here, he could have followed the same route that “The New York Times” and other respected journalists did when they were incidentally overheard and may have, in fact, not been incidentally had their call records obtained by the Department of Justice. They could have gone to the attorney general, and Tucker Carlson could have joined them to say what I’m concerned about here is not that there was incidental collection when I am calling a foreigner, including if you try to reach out to Vladimir Putin, you can pretty much be sure you’re going to be high risk of being intercepted.”
He continued, “He could have said, look, there’s a First Amendment issue, and I want to be sure there are safeguards, but he didn’t take that route. He did, as you said, and as frank pointed out, he wanted to use this for his own purposes and to sow distrust which is so anti-American. . . .
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/07/08/weissmann-anti-american-for-tucker-carlson-to-complain-about-nsa-surveillance/
For a lawyer, Weissman is lacking a great deal of coherence here. But his point is unmistakably reminiscent of an earlier period when people were labeled as anti-German for questioning the actions of the Gestapo and SS.
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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.
As a lawyer, he should be familiar with the Fourth Amendment.