Judge Napolitano applauds ruling on NSA Spying program

NSA surveillance program ordered to be scaled back

Judge Napolitano ~ If WE Lie To Gov't We Can Go To Jail, SCOTUS Ruled Gov't Can Lie To US

Judge Napolitano ~ Saving Face On Syria: Obama Avoided Personal Embarrassment

Judge Napolitano ~ Saving Face On Syria: Obama Avoided Personal Embarrassment


First and most important of all, U.S. intelligence can't prove it was Syrian governmental forces who performed those chemical attacks and not the terrorists AKA 'rebels'. From the very beginning of this story U.S. talk and talk and talk about proofs they allegedly have, but still, unsurprisingly, haven't provided any. Only babbling. The only solid proof that exists now is Russia's 100-page scientific report which says it was 'rebels' and only them who conducted chemical attacks in March, not some imaginary 'Rogue Syrian Army General', i.e. exactly the opposite to what U.S. tries to push.

Judge Napolitano ~ Obama May Be Indicted As War Criminal For Syria

Judge Napolitano with Shep Smith ~ Obama May Be Indicted As War Criminal For Syria

Judge Napolitano ~ US Military Action In Syria Is Illegal Under International Law & The Constitution

Syrians killed Syrians? We should kill some Syrians to send a message to the Syrians that they should not kill Syrians!

Judge Napolitano Reacts To Bradley Manning Verdict

And of course Manning was going to lose, this admin hates anyone that questions it and goes after them with a vengeance. The MSM are barely covering this.The MSM is accepting the US govt. line and is reporting that as the undisputed truth. Scary times brothers and sisters !

JOHN STOSSEL vs. JUDGE NAPOLITANO on Government spying on us

Unfortunately for liberty, Eisenhower's warning fell on the deaf ears of a dumbed-down public.How can we prevent terror attacks when it is often the shadow government commanding the system that is committing the acts of terror. If we ever manage to get rid of the shadow governments snooping in our lives, they will bring us another contrived terrorist attack to convince us that we need them snooping again.

Judge Napolitano ~ NSA Most Outrageous, Extensive, Massive Violation of Constitution

Judge Napolitano ~ NSA Most Outrageous, Extensive, Massive Violation of Constitution
Judge, hits the nail on the head! I hope he becomes Rand's VP. People should be concerned even about metadata collection though... it paints such incredibly detailed pictures about you even without the content itself included.

Once again showing his civil libertarian side, Fox News anchor Shep Smith railed against the National Security Agency this afternoon with the help of noted libertarian colleague Judge Andrew Napolitano. Reacting to last evening's news that the NSA has secretly obtained the phone records of millions of Verizon customers, most of whom are not suspected of any crimes, and Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) assertion that congressmen have known about the snooping for seven years and is "routine," Smith and Napolitano tore into the "constitutionally impermissible" nature of the government's actions.

"This is a fishing expedition on the grandest scale we've ever seen in American history," Napolitano said. "They're looking for a select group of people and in order to find that select group of people the Constitution says to present some evidence against them to a judge and get a search warrant for their phones. Rather than doing that, they got a search warrant for 113 million phones."

"Who would trust them after this?" the judge continued, noting that the administration's defenders have claimed the NSA hasn't actually listened to anyone's calls. "The Constitution doesn't trust them."

Smith then played a clip from this morning of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) saying he is "glad" the NSA is snooping in order to protect Americans from terrorists threats, prompting the judge's response:

"The whole purpose of the Fourth Amendment is to prevent the government from doing this, to prevent it from interfering with the privacy rights of a lot of innocent people in order to find a few that may be planning something wrong. [...] Nobody wants the wrong thing to happen but the idea that we would sacrifice liberty in order to obtain safety is a canard. This is just a shortcut to make it easier for American spies to spy on Americans."
He concluded: "This is the most extraordinarily broad search warrant every issued in the history of the federal courts of the United States."

A clearly-incensed Shep Smith then spoke directly to camera: "Under this logic, the government can send to people to all of our homes, put them in a bed next to us, have them watch everything."

"The slippery slope is covered in green," the host concluded. "We're not letting this go. Not for a moment. We're not letting this go."

Judge Napolitano Slams Gen. Alexander Not Answer Question in NSA Hearing: TRUST US?

The Same Administration Says TRUST US in Benghazi

Judge Andrew Napolitano called the situation "a fishing expedition on the grandest scale we've ever seen in American history." The government is looking for a select group of people, and instead of obeying the Constitution and simply getting a search warrant for their phones, the judge says, "They got a search warrant for a 113 million phones!" "Who would trust them after this? The Constitution doesn't trust them!" Napolitano told Shepard Smith. The clearly impassioned judge shouted, "This is just a shortcut to make it easier for America's spies to spy on Americans. Shep, they spied on the West Wing, they spied on the Pentagon, they spied on the Supreme Court, they spied on the CIA! This is spies spying on spies. This is the most extraordinarily broad search warrant ever issued in the history of the federal courts of the United States!" The two discussed the widespread implications to privacy in America, with Shep concluding the segment by saying, "The slippery slope is covered in grease."

Judge Napolitano : The ACLU Files Lawsuit Over Government Massive Phone Record Grab

Judge Napolitano with Cavuto ~ ACLU Files Lawsuit Over Government Massive Phone Record Grab
Our gov is outta of control. Educate yourselves people ! Regulations and overreach and constitutional values are at an all time high!!

Occupy our country till we play ball. How do you think our country would react to military occupation? We would be labeled as terrorists to just remember that. Our government is using the fear of terrorists to pass laws and policies that shred our Constitution and take our civil liberties more and more with every passing year. What I don't understand is why can people from other countries see whats happening but can't seem to see that big ass machine of governmental tyranny in our on backyard..

Judge Napolitano: NSA Leaker Edward Snowden AMERICAN HERO

"I describe this man as an American hero," judge Andrew Napolitano told Fox News host Shepard Smith, "willing to risk life and liberty in order to expose to the American people one of the most extraordinary violations of the American principles, value judgments and the Constitution itself in all of our history."

BusinessInsider The fact that former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden decided to go public with his grievances against the U.S. government is certainly brave and bold.
People can and will accuse Snowden of many things. But no one will ever accuse him of not having the guts to stand up for what he believes.
Whether or not Snowden should be regarded as a "hero" for exposing what he believes is horrible intelligence gathering abuse by the U.S. government, however--as some are already suggesting he should be--remains to be seen.
Snowden has certainly made some startling claims about the scope of the U.S. intelligence and surveillance programs.
Most notably, Snowden claims that, as a 29 year-old security contractor, he had both the legal authority and the technological ability to "wiretap anyone — from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President."
If that's true, that is indeed very startling.
Snowden also claims that the National Security Agency now intercepts and records almost all global communications, and that these recorded communications can be easily accessed:
"...the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested [by the NSA] without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."
Now, the NSA--or FBI, DOJ, or even your local police department--have always been able to get access to all of this information for U.S. citizens, provided they have a warrant from a judge allowing them to do so and provided you or your service providers have retained these records. But what seems new, based on Snowden's description, is that the government is now maintaining its own records of all this information and, if I understand Snowden correctly, can now access and use any of it without a warrant.
If that's true, it's certainly worth asking whether we really want the government to be able to do that. It's also worth asking whether the the government really does have the legal authority to do that--or whether it has gone way beyond what the lawmakers intended.
But, I, for one, would like some confirmation that what Snowden is saying is true before I denounce the government.
And some of the other things that Snowden has said have certainly made me wonder whether he isn't just viewing all this from a philosophical perspective that mainstream Americans might consider, well, extreme.
Asked why he decided to leak classified information to the media, for example, Snowden said the following:
"I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things ... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
Asked whether surveillance might help deter or prevent terrorism, Snowden appeared to suggest that we shouldn't pay so much attention to terrorism:
"We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism. Boston was a criminal act. It was not about surveillance but good, old-fashioned police work. The police are very good at what they do."
Asked whether he sees himself as "another Bradley Manning," the U.S. Army private who sent a boatload of classified U.S. documents to Wikileaks, Snowden expressed nothing but admiration for Manning:
"Manning was a classic whistleblower. He was inspired by the public good."
To address these statements in reverse order...
Bradley Manning may have been "inspired by" his own personal view of the "public good." But, personally, I'm not convinced that what Bradley Manning did was actually good for the public. I don't think it was terrible for the public. And it was certainly interesting to read some of those diplomatic communications. But I didn't see anything in them that made me think they were so important that they were worth Manning violating his professional duty, breaking the law, and risking a lifetime in jail to make them public.

Judge Napolitano On NSA Spying: Most Extraordinarily Broad Search Warrant Ever Issued In US History

Judge Andrew Napolitano called the situation "a fishing expedition on the grandest scale we've ever seen in American history." The government is looking for a select group of people, and instead of obeying the Constitution and simply getting a search warrant for their phones, the judge says, "They got a search warrant for a 113 million phones!"

"Who would trust them after this? The Constitution doesn't trust them!" Napolitano told Shepard Smith.

The clearly impassioned judge shouted, "This is just a shortcut to make it easier for America's spies to spy on Americans. Shep, they spied on the West Wing, they spied on the Pentagon, they spied on the Supreme Court, they spied on the CIA! This is spies spying on spies. This is the most extraordinarily broad search warrant ever issued in the history of the federal courts of the United States!"

The two discussed the widespread implications to privacy in America, with Shep concluding the segment by saying, "The slippery slope is covered in grease."

Judge Napolitano on The NSA Scandal : 'We're Not Letting This Go.'

Shep Smith And Judge Napolitano Rail Against NSA Abuse: 'We're Not Letting This Go.'


6/6/13 - Once again showing his civil libertarian side, Fox News anchor Shep Smith railed against the National Security Agency this afternoon with the help of noted libertarian colleague Judge Andrew Napolitano. Reacting to last evening's news that the NSA has secretly obtained the phone records of millions of Verizon customers, most of whom are not suspected of any crimes, and Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) assertion that congressmen have known about the snooping for seven years and is "routine," Smith and Napolitano tore into the "constitutionally impermissible" nature of the government's actions.

"This is a fishing expedition on the grandest scale we've ever seen in American history," Napolitano said. "They're looking for a select group of people and in order to find that select group of people the Constitution says to present some evidence against them to a judge and get a search warrant for their phones. Rather than doing that, they got a search warrant for 113 million phones."

"Who would trust them after this?" the judge continued, noting that the administration's defenders have claimed the NSA hasn't actually listened to anyone's calls. "The Constitution doesn't trust them."

Smith then played a clip from this morning of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) saying he is "glad" the NSA is snooping in order to protect Americans from terrorists threats, prompting the judge's response:

"The whole purpose of the Fourth Amendment is to prevent the government from doing this, to prevent it from interfering with the privacy rights of a lot of innocent people in order to find a few that may be planning something wrong. [...] Nobody wants the wrong thing to happen but the idea that we would sacrifice liberty in order to obtain safety is a canard. This is just a shortcut to make it easier for American spies to spy on Americans."
He concluded: "This is the most extraordinarily broad search warrant every issued in the history of the federal courts of the United States."

A clearly-incensed Shep Smith then spoke directly to camera: "Under this logic, the government can send to people to all of our homes, put them in a bed next to us, have them watch everything."

"The slippery slope is covered in green," the host concluded. "We're not letting this go. Not for a moment. We're not letting this go."

Judge Andrew Napolitano on IRS Controversy and The President - 5/16/13

Judge Andrew Napolitano on IRS Controversy and The President - 5/16/13

Judge Andrew Napolitano: The Pres Is A very Smart Guy Pres Parse His Word Because Did Not Want To Be Accused Of Lying, Now He is Accused Of Hiding The Truth!! IRS Controversy & The President Obama Asked To Confirm WH Did Not Know About It

Judge Napolitano Exposes Eric Holder & DOJ For 'Profound And Direct Assault On First Amendment'

May 14, 2013 - Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department decided to subpoena phone records of AP citing one of the "most serious leaks" he's ever encountered. Holder says he removed himself from the decision to subpoena the records.



5/14/13 - Reacting to Attorney General Eric Holder's Tuesday afternoon press briefing on the Department of Justice's secret seizing of Associated Press phone records, Fox senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano tore into the agency for its "direct assault" on the Constitution that he says circumvented the proper channels laid out by the law. On Monday afternoon it was revealed that the DOJ had obtained the private phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors. In response, Holder explained today that the seizure was part of an investigation into one of the worst leaks he has ever seen in his legal career, one he believes could have compromised national security.
Napolitano was not convinced, calling Justice's actions a "profound and direct assault on the First Amendment." He explained to Fox host Megyn Kelly that the feds have three different methods to legally seize documents from an outlet like the Associated Press: 1. "Grand jury subpoena, in which case the U.S. attorney has to tell the person, 'We are going for your records.'" 2. "Go to a judge and present evidence of probable cause of crime to get a search warrant." 3. "Obtain a national security letter, in which a federal agent writes a search warrant authorizing another federal agent to get the documents under the PATRIOT Act."
The third option, Napolitano added, "is unconstitutional, but it is the law." But as the judge sees it, the only crime that's been identified by Holder thus far was the "crime of leaking," which does not constitute a national security threat.
And so without following any of the three steps to legally obtaining documents under federal law, Napolitano told Kelly, the seizure "was absolutely done improperly and it violated most the core protected rights under the Constitution: freedom of speech."

Judge Napolitano on Internet Wiretap Proposal

Judge Andrew Napolitano explains the government's latest attempt to bypass Fourth Amendment protections.
Potential new regulations could make it easier for federal officials to wiretap online communications. The reported proposal have raised concern surrounding privacy issues. Obama's administration is implementing internet eavesdropping and wiretapping. Emails and social networking sites will be intercepted. It will make it easier for hackers to get all your information. This is a violation of your privacy and your Constitutional Rights are being taking away little by little.

Judge Napolitano On Government Faking Terror Plots!

Judge Napolitano what would he say about Boston Judge On Government Faking Terror Plots!

There’s always enough confusion surrounding these events that trying to straighten out the details is like looking for one end of a strand of spaghetti in a bowl. What makes sense is to look at the events from overhead and the important details emerge because they are found to be so similar to those of other events. 1. Apparently senseless violence, always perpetrated against the innocent and the unarmed. 2. Participants are first unknown or shadowy and after a “decent interval” of sleuthwork, the FBI or other agency solves the puzzle and runs the perp(s) to ground. 3. To ground, literally: Everybody dies. 4. In the high profile national news coverage, some item of a police state rising is advanced. 5. The obvious government subterfuge comes under greater and greater scrutiny with voices growing louder and louder and the government’s corporate press circles its wagons and the daily propaganda begins. 6. The nation gets divided more and the government gets responsive with increasing federal countermeasures 7. The uneasy dueling between the police state and citizens asserting the supremacy of their contract with the Constitution goes on and on toward wherever its leading. And then rising a bit higher in the sky, high enough to see history itself, you see where the pattern is leading — 8. In the coalition among government, banks, psychiatric forces of the day, corporations that feed on the tax dollar (or reichsmark, or ruble, or peso) and finally the general apathy, cowardice and blindness of a country’s middle class (or what passes for a middle class–the majority of people “getting by” somehow), a totalitarian society emerges, and night descends in a final steel curtain. We may never know exactly what went down in Boston anymore than at Daley Plaza or aboard Flight 93, but it’s probably a sure bet that two young Chechen boys learned all too late that dancing with the devil leads to one final waltz.

Judge Napolitano On IRS E-Mail Snooping Without Warrants: Stay Out Of Our Stuff!

Napolitano and Shep Smith Take On IRS E-Mail Snooping Without Warrants: 'Stay Out Of Our Stuff!'


4/11/13 - With Tax Day less than a week away, Fox News reported this afternoon on the American Civil Liberties Union obtaining IRS documents via the Freedom of Information Act that show the federal tax collection agency routinely searches Americans' emails, possibly in violation of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable search and seizures.

Reporter Jonathan Hunt noted to host Shepard Smith that the controversy over the Internal Revenue Service's practices largely stems from the fact that the agency uses an "administrative summons" to decide to search an email without a search warrant or any form of court order.

Fox judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano clarified the controversy to a "confused" Smith, explaining that the IRS intends to use this surveillance technique only for investigating criminal fraud, which makes up "a very, very, very tiny percentage of taxpayers." However, he noted, many of the e-mails read and collected will never make it to a court case; and the ones that do would likely be questioned by a judge who wondered how the evidence was obtained without any form of court order or warrant permitting a search of private e-email exchanges.

"How is that consistent with the Fourth Amendment?" the judge hypothetically asked. "You didn't come to me and ask for a search warrant — you just took it."

Smith then lamented that there are "so many more instances of elements of the government or authority figures in this country getting into our stuff."

"Stay out of our stuff," he said to an agreeing Napolitano.

"What the ACLU — in my view, quite properly — wants to know [from the IRS] is: Are you following your own regulations which tell you how to get around the Fourth Amendment or are you following the Fourth Amendment?" the judge said. "They have not yet answered that question."

"What happens next: Anybody they suspect of cheating, they just drone them," Smith joked to end the segment.

Judge Napolitano on Margaret Thatcher: She Liberated Great Britain From The Chains Of Socialism

On FBN's Varney & Co. this morning Judge Andrew Napolitano shared his thoughts on the death of former British Prime Minister Lady Margaret Thatcher and her legacy.

Judge Napolitano : Connecticut Gun Control Law is Absurd and Unenforceable & Should be VOID

Judge Napolitano : Connecticut Gun Control Law 'A Wishlist For Those Who Hate 2nd Amendment'


"I think it is a serious interference with the individual right to keep and bear arms, and Connecticut is a unique situation. You have people legitimately grieving over the tragedy right before Christmas in Newtown. You also have a very, very liberal, very progressive government that wants to feel like it is doing something to alleviate that grieving. Unfortunately, what it is doing would not have stopped Adam Lanza even if these laws had been in place at the time, and will only affect law-abiding people and their ability to hunt, shoot and protect themselves when the police can't and won't. It will not stop a single criminal -- or a single crazy person -- from doing the type of thing that has plagued our society."