Privacy no longer a citizen right, according to FBI’s Comey – IOTW Report

Privacy no longer a citizen right, according to FBI’s Comey

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FBI head honcho James Comey behaves just as one might expect a 2013 President Barack Obama-appointed FBI director to behave.

He conducts himself with a confidence that seems unflappable,  displays arrogance and, just like the president who appointed him, sometimes throws taunting in for good measure.

“FBI Director James Comey has warned that absolute privacy does not exist in the US, noting that a judge can compel anyone to testify about their communications – and even their memories. (CNN, March 9, 2017)

“Even our communications with our spouses, with our clergy members, with our attorneys are not absolutely private in America,” Comey said. “In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel anyone of us to testify in court about those very private communications.

“He went on to state that although Americans have a “reasonable expectation” of privacy in their homes, cars, and on their devices, the government can still “invade our private spaces.”

“Even our memories aren’t private. Any of us can be compelled to say what we saw…,” Comey said.”

Comey said all this as if the loss of the privacy of American citizens is a loss that cannot be retrieved.  read more

19 Comments on Privacy no longer a citizen right, according to FBI’s Comey

  1. No, Jimbo, you’re wrong. No judge can compel me to say something that I choose not to say. What a judge can do is to offer me a choice between divulging what he wants or being imprisoned. But that choice is mine, and always will be. Just as it is in obeying any damned mala prohibita laws.

  2. Eric Holder, Lois Lerner and Hillary Clinton, Homeland security, EPA, DOJ, State Dept., IRS and every federal agency begs to differ with this partisan, progressive, political hack named Comey of the FBI.

  3. That’s funny, because when the interviewed Hillary’s subordinates about what they or did not know about her private server, sending classified information over unsecured channels and the cover, they all choose not to answer or seemed to have very faulty memories.

  4. I’m sure the right to privacy can be found in the penumbra of the constitution. Isn’t this the argument the tyrant SCOTUS used to legalize infanticide, the right to privacy?

  5. I shudder to think about what kind of dirt Comey must have on the powers that be in this country. Obama, Hillary, – even Trump – seem not be able to touch the guy. He does what he wants and lets the chips fall where they may.

    Eat your heart out, J. Edgar – there’s a new Sheriff in town!

    🙂

  6. Comey is the Civics instructor for the 21st century. He doesn’t give you the theory of how our government is SUPPOSED to work, he tells you flat out how it DOES work.

    Hillary committed crimes with the handling of classified documents. Comey said as much from his teachers lectern. But she wasn’t indicted because she is a member of the oligarchy.

    The government allows you no actual privacy because, they don’t have to. We’re damn sure not doing anything about it as citizens.

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