If the Attorney General decides that the crime you
are being charged with somehow relates to national security or is a
``transnational crime,'' that decision by the Attorney General is
really pretty much sacred. You can go to jail without ever being
allowed to challenge the government's use of section 702 information
against you--information obtained without a warrant and potentially
uncovered as a result of warrantless searches specifically conducted to
find your communications and communications about you. The ways in which the government could potentially use this
information, collected without a warrant to investigate and prosecute
Americans and those in the United States, are limitless--immigration
status, recreational drugs, back taxes. The list goes on and on. I
don't think Americans think that is how the system is supposed to work. Is that what a warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance bill is
supposed to do? I don't think so--immigration status, recreational
drugs, back taxes--but this bill allows it. The bill leaves in place other problems that affect our rights. One
of them is the issue of what is called parallel construction.
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