Probable Cause

It\\’s OK if we

It’s OK if we wiretap Osama bin Laden. I want to know what he’s planning – obviously not him nowadays, but that kind of thing. I don’t care if it’s a pope or a bin Laden. As long as investigators must go to a judge – an independent judge, a real judge, not a secret … Read more

The problem is when

The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting in the first place, without any specific judicial showing that there’s a probable cause for that infringement of our rights. Edward Snowden

Many of our ally

Many of our ally states don’t have these constitutional protections – in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They’ve lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National … Read more

Investment in reliability will

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done. Arthur Bloch

Accordingly, the poet should

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. Aristotle

I think we’ve made

I think we’ve made the collection haystack so big, no one’s ever getting through the haystack to find the needle. What we really need to do is isolate the haystack into a group of suspicious people and spend enormous resources looking at suspicious people, people who we have probable cause. Rand Paul

I think the vast

I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn’t be able to collect my phone records if I’m not suspicious, if you don’t have probable cause. Rand Paul

The Fourth Amendment is

The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives – without probable cause and without a warrant.
Ron Paul

Variant: When it is

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes