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Re:Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower by dragonwriter on Thursday January 02, 2014 @12:59PM (#7000974)
> The NSA programs are either constitutional or not.

The idea that constitutionality, or any other question of legal interpretation, is a matter of objective fact which has a clear, crisp, true or false answer is, while a comforting illusion, not at all even remotely true.

Re:Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower by blueprint on Thursday January 02, 2014 @04:07PM (#7002288)
Whether or not warrants were obtained for their activities, is, however, an objectively verifiable boolean fact.
Re:Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower by mpyne on Thursday January 02, 2014 @04:35PM (#7002472)
Sure, but that doesn't help you either, as there are many other precedents besides NSA programs for situations where the government can compel a search without a warrant. This is permitted by that pesky little word "unreasonable" in the Fourth Amendment.