Gore: NSA program ‘violates’ Constitution
By Daniel Strauss – 06/14/13 06:06 PM ET
Former Vice President Al Gore strongly criticized the National Security Agency’s secret telephone data collection program saying it violates the Constitution.
“I quite understand the viewpoint that many have expressed that they are fine with it and they just want to be safe but that is not really the American way,” Gore told The Guardian. “Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that those who would give up essential liberty to try to gain some temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Gore’s comments contrast from those from a number of national security officials and lawmakers, including President Obama, who have said the program is constitutional and necessary to national security. But Gore disagreed.
“This in my view violates the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment and the First Amendment – and the Fourth Amendment language is crystal clear,” Gore continued. “It is not acceptable to have a secret interpretation of a law that goes far beyond any reasonable reading of either the law or the constitution and then classify as top secret what the actual law is.”
In 1949 a UFO landed in Roswell AZ.
Al Gore was born 9 months later.
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