Feds Announce They Can Seize All Your Emails, Phone Chats Without A Warrant

Any American educated in the founding of our country and who has paid even a little bit of attention to the Obama Administration fully understands that this president believes his is an imperial regime unrestrained by the same Constitution that guided his predecessors. And while many of them certainly stretched our founding documents to its limits and beyond, perhaps no presidential administration at least since the 1930s has flouted the rule of law so often as President Obama and his appointees.

Take the example of Attorney General Eric Holder, who recently claimed the federal government now has the authority to seize personal email, Twitter direct messages and Facebook chats without first obtaining a search warrant, as the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment mandates.

According to internal documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which were provided to CNET, “show a split over electronic privacy rights within the Obama Administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they’re not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail,” the website reported.

‘Courts and Congress need to step in’