Obama violates 4th Amendment: Today's news for January 17th

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."--4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

President Obama has violated the 4th Amendment with the following news:

The Intercept:

Obama Opens NSA’s Vast Trove of Warrantless Data to Entire Intelligence Community, 

Just in Time for Trump

WITH ONLY DAYS until Donald Trump takes office, the Obama administration on Thursday announced new rules that will let the NSA share vast amounts of private data gathered without warrant, court orders or congressional authorization with 16 other agencies, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.

The new rules allow employees doing intelligence work for those agencies to sift through raw data collected under a broad, Reagan-era executive order that gives the NSA virtually unlimited authority to intercept communications abroad. Previously, NSA analysts would filter out information they deemed irrelevant and mask the names of innocent Americans before passing it along.

In other words, by placing phone calls or sending emails, your private communications are NOT protected "against unreasonable searches and seizures". As soon as you communicate electronically, your rights are gone.

Consider this:

Executive Order 12333, often referred to as “twelve triple-three,” has attracted less debate than congressional wiretapping laws, but serves as authorization for the NSA’s most massive surveillance programs — far more than the NSA’s other programs combined. Under 12333, the NSA taps phone and internet backbones throughout the world, records the phone calls of entire countries, vacuums up traffic from Google and Yahoo’s data centers overseas, and more.

In 2014, The Intercept revealed that the NSA uses 12333 as a legal basis for an internal NSA search engine that spans more than 850 billion phone and internet records and contains the unfiltered private information of millions of Americans.

 Note that information includes data collected within the United States. This is no longer about "protecting against terrorists". The Drug Enforcement Agency doesn't care about terrorists.

Welcome to Oceania.

Speaking of stupid Leftists...

CNN:

Hail Trump? White nationalists already losing faith in President-elect

The alt-right is having a falling out -- in some ways with their President-elect, but in perhaps even more instances with each other.

And it comes on the eve of an alt-right inaugural celebration called the DeploraBall -- a play off of Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" campaign remark.

Look no further than the white nationalist who coined the term alt-right, Richard Spencer. He's the same man who stood at a podium shortly after Donald Trump's election and, in a video that went viral, shouted "Hail Trump!" while several in the crowd celebrated the victory with a Nazi salute.

But listen to him now, you'll notice a marked shift in tone when speaking of the man who will become the 45th President of the United States.

"I have described it as the morning-after period. We got euphoric and a little drunk on success," Spencer, director of the white nationalist think tank National Policy Institute, told CNN. "I am getting worried that he won't work on really big important issues like immigration -- that he'll get caught up on little things like making fun of people on Twitter."

Some others in the alt-right are starting to wonder if Trump is really their guy. They've become increasingly critical of his Cabinet picks, and the fact that he's admitted that Russia did in fact engage in hacking leading up to the election.

Does this mean that MAYBE Trump isn't the racist which the mainstream media likes to portray? If anything, the "Trump as racist" meme was an MSM construct with no basis in reality. The MSM actually sold Trump to the white nationalist minority. Yet one more thing for which we can blame the MSM.

Speaking of Trump...

Wall Street Journal:

General Motors Plans at Least $1 Billion in Fresh U.S. Investment

General Motors Co. this week will announce plans to invest at least $1 billion across several U.S. factories, two people familiar with the plan said, a move aimed at underlining its commitment to U.S. manufacturing jobs in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s criticism of the auto maker’s imports from Mexico.

GM’s announcement could come as early as Tuesday, the people briefed on the plan said. The company will cite a number of new jobs in excess of 1,000 stemming from the investment but doesn’t plan to specify which of its factories are in line for more work, one person said.

...The move comes days after Mr. Trump publicly ratcheted up pressure on the nation’s largest auto maker. During his press conference last week, the president-elect thanked Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for recently announced U.S. investment plans that are expected to create a combined 2,700 jobs. He then turned up the heat on GM to follow suit.

“I hope that General Motors will be following. And I think they will be,” Mr. Trump said.

Before we all break out in chants of "TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!", look at those numbers: 3,700 jobs in a country of 300 million people. That's less than a drop in the bucket.

How many import/export jobs will be lost to create those 3,700 jobs? We will find out, and it may not be fun.