Rep. Stockman requests NSA
logs for phone traffic between White House, IRS
Human Events – John Hayward –
6/14/2013
Administration apologists state
that we shouldn’t have anything to fear from enhanced phone and online
surveillance, if we have nothing to hide. (The authors of the Fourth
Amendment certainly didn’t feel that way, did they?) Rep. Steve
Stockman (R-TX) brilliantly turned this line of thinking against the White
House, by asking the House Oversight committee to subpoena the National
Security Agency’s phone call metadata for communication between the White House
and IRS:
Stockman’s office hand
delivered a letter Tuesday afternoon to the Committee’s office.
Here is the full text of
Stockman’s letter to House Oversight chair Darrell Issa (R-CA):
Thank you for your ongoing
efforts to investigate abuses of civil liberties by employees of the Internal
Revenue Service.
These abuses seem to
indicate a larger, higher pattern of ideologically-driven harassment of
Americans which Congress has an obligation to fully investigate with every tool
at our disposal.
Frankly I am disappointed by
revelations Obama administration personnel have been less than forward about
what they knew and when they knew it.
As you know, recent
revelations show the National Security Agency has been keeping an “ongoing,
daily” log of every domestic phone call in the United States
I respectfully request your
Committee subpoena the records of every phone call made from all public and
private telephones of all IRS personnel to all public and private telephones of
all White House personnel.
If President Obama is
collecting such information, he certainly would want us to use it. If he
has nothing to hide he has nothing to be afraid of.
READER COMMENT: "Terrance Brown, 40, is on trial in South Florida for allegedly conspiring with four other
men to hijack armored trucks delivering cash to banks in 2010. All have pleaded
not guilty. But now Brown has come up with a unique defense: he wants the
National Security Agency to turn over his phone records to the court to
demonstrate his innocence."
READER COMMENT: Was the data collected by NSA used by the
Obama 2012 Campaign to pinpoint and target the electorate?
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