"Obama has no right to sit on the sidelines until the high court tells him what the Constitution means. The president is under an independent obligation to determine that his actions are legitimate. And, as a former professor of constitutional law, he is in a good position to explain why the NSA isn't violating the amendment's demand that the government describe the persons and things involved in its data grabs. My point has been reinforced further by the federal Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which issued a majority report Thursday that emphasized the seriousness of the constitutional issues.
But alas, he simply refuses to talk about the 4th Amendment, asserting that the "challenge … is getting the details right.""
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"It will take a lot of work from a lot of people to vindicate fundamental Western values. We can't count on Obama to do the job for us."
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-adv-ackerman-nsa-obama-20140126,0,2145502.story#ixzz2rQ1Dcmg0
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