Beaufort Observer
3/23/2012
We recently published an article about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It stirred up a ruckus, all the way to Sen. Richard Burr’s office. Our contention was that several provisions in the NDAA are unconstitutional. We contended that the sections 1021, 1022 and 1031 provided for the indefinite detention of American citizens without benefit of a judicial hearing (Habeas corpus) and other constitutional rights…
…Now we have yet another example of why we don’t trust our government to honor our constitution and the rights it guarantees all American citizens.
Myway.com last week published an article by Eileen Sullivan that described how the National Counterterrorism Center announced that it is changing its policy of storing information that it collects on law-abiding American citizens without search warrants.
So what’s the big deal you may ask. It is the creeping expansion of government violation of our constitutional rights. Here’s how…
Read the entire article at the Beaufort Observer.
Update: U.S. To Keep Data On Americans With No Terror Ties. NPR finally catches up.
Update 2: by David Van Ness on Facebook (H/T The Blacksphere)