A neccessary 1st step in bringing back the 4th Amendment

By Brent

Ever since 9-11, the 4th Amendment of the constitution has been under siege from the Bush Administration. Cell phone calls have been monitored, data dumps have occurred, and emails have been collected. The assertion that Armed Forces activities did not have to follow the 4th Amendment. But now, there is a glimmer of hope coming from Attorney General Mukasey. He told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the 2001 memo insisting that the 4th Amendment did not cover military activities in the U.S. is "not in force."

AG Mukasey said "Fourth Amendment applies across the board, regardless of whether we're in wartime or in peacetime." The Office of Legal Counsel disagrees with the AG, but these are the same group of people that say that executive privilege extends to all conversations in the executive branch, not just Presidential conversations. Anyways, Mukasey also said that the priority while he is AG is to release documents, there are other factors besides the right of information to be disseminated.

John Yoo, a former OLC deputy that wrote many of the counterterrorism memos that have enraged people in America has been asked to testify. Yoo doesn't want to appear.

It looks like AG Mukasey is trying to help get the constitution back as the law of the land. He might run into a brick wall and might be buying time for the Bush Administration, but I say that we must support him until he proves that he has lied to us and doesn't care about the rule of law.

I really don't care that Yoo doesn't want to appear, subpoena him and ask him the hard questions. I am tired of all the secrecy that the Bush Administration has used to keep their allegedly illegal activities out of the public eye. Time to expose the secrecy to sunlight and see what cockroaches come crawling out.