Stand up, stand up. You've been sitting way too long.

Welcome to this special edition of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, I'm Steve Scrovan. In this series,

Ralph and constitutional scholar Bruce Fine will lay out articles in the

impeachment of President Donald J Trump.

Count 13, violation of the Fourth Amendment.

This one goes to the core of everybody's right of privacy that Lewis Brandeis before he became

Supreme Court Justice said was a constitutionally based right of privacy and it's rooted in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.

Elaborate that.

Yes, the Fourth Amendment prohibits any unreasonable searches and seizures by the government that ordinarily the government

before they encroach on your privacy needs to get a warrant based upon probable cause

to think you're implicated in some kind of crime and the warrant is issued

by a neutral magistrate not by an executive official. But we have now a pattern

under both the amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Executive Order, which I think is illegal Executive Order one, two, triple three, presence without any warrants at all.

Suspicionless authority given to the National Security Agency, FBI, and executive

officials and the CIA to spy for not for crime but for foreign intelligence purposes which could include anything under the sun.

No, the Fourth Amendment did not anticipate encroachments on privacy for something as remote as foreign

intelligence. What's that? The crime has specific elements and definitions to it and it limits the

ability of the government to destroy and upset your life. And now we're at a situation, Ralph, where we don't even know how much

D. C. A. is piled up against us. They have so much information in the

National Security Agency that they don't even have to have names you know it's so

high you know we talk about trillions mega trillions they invent new words to describe the

volume of data that they collect, suspicionless, like a vacuum cleaner.

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