More on the NSA Domestic Spying Issue

Security Agency Whistleblower Warns Domestic Spying Program Is Sign the U.S. is Decaying Into a “Police State”

Quoted in the article:

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: This warrant-less eavesdropping program is
not authorized by the PATRIOT Act, it's not authorized by any act of
Congress, and it's not overseen by any court. According to the reports
it’s being conducted under a secret presidential order, based on secret
legal opinions by the same Justice Department, lawyers, the same ones
who argued secretly that the President could order the use of torture.
Mr. President, it is time to have some checks and balances in this
country. We are a democracy. We are a democracy. Let's have checks and
balances, not secret orders and secret courts and secret torture, and
on and on.

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That's good stuff there. He's got one hell of a point: Secret courts and the like breed corruption.