Mike Pompeo Quotes
It would not be permissible for you to build a home and not let law enforcement in if they had a search warrant. If they think there's a crime ongoing, they go to court and get a warrant, and they're permitted to come in your home under the Fourth Amendment.
Pompeo, Mike. "Remarks on the Apple-FBI Dispute." Congressional Record, Government Publishing Office, 2016.
Many politicians were arguing that giving the intelligence agencies more power to wiretap, bug and hack into personal communications despite the 4th Amendment’s strictures argued that the public was in rational fear of terror attacks and had a right to be protected.
The choice is usually contrasted between guilty persons going free, rather an innocent one be adjudicated guilty. But here the justice tells us that the avoidance of an innocent person being subject to easy arrest is important enough to have a system where guilty people sometimes escape justice.
This statement was made in response to the leaked disclosure that the U. S. Security agencies had software which would allow them to turn Smart TV Sets into listing devices without ever physically touching the TV set—for that matter from any place in the world. This area wgere there was a wide range of poarized scholarly legal opinion. The view here in articulated by Comey was that in a nation, Law enforcment personnel and authorities. albeit with checks and court supervision. must be able to override all comes to and rights of privacy in order to enforce the law. The other view is that from the earliest days of our nation there were certain areas of privacy that may not be breached. Much of the debate in over 200 year has been about the checks and balances that are associated with why the provacy needs to be breached and the due process thereof. But especially with the changes in technology iver the last centuries, the other side that it is not merely the issue of due process, When brain scanning technology is developed can there be any possiuble leagal justificaion to forcing a person to be brain scanned to determine is real rellings about his wife or children, Can privacy of individual thoughts be subject to a search warrant as is speech or action? More and more legal s holars have moved away from Comey's position becasue of the ver poor pewrformance that law enforcement has had in being checked. If the chances of a FISA Court ever denying a warrant is less thatn the odds of being struck by lightening, is there really any meaningful surveilance in our current systems. In addtion to the hundreds of throusands of State and local police department and investigator scandals that have been revealed in teh last 50 years, the FBI, The CIA, Military Inteligence Agencies and the NSA -- all of whom have been exposed for violating the laws about illegal searches and siezures, lying to the Courts and to the Congressional Oversight Commitees and even to a number of Presidents, has shifted the thinking of some to regulate by providing absolute limits on abridging certain kinds of privacy like brain scanning, statements of religioully protected concessions, spousal privilege etc.
Like civil rights advocates and protectors of later times, Beale was viciously attacked by the right wing for his “dangerous” tendencies. The church leaders of the time tried to have Beal tried in court for his criticism of established authority, but he had the respect of many and especially Queen Elisabeth I, and other than the constant smears, Beale endured.
Michael Richard Pompeo is an American politician, diplomat, businessman, and attorney who served under President Donald Trump as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United States Secretary of State from 2018 to 2021.
