helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engle.

We've all heard that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but what good our laws if people

aren't held accountable for violating them?

Hello, there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with the Constitution study,

where we read instead of the Constitution, teacher-reaching generation to be free.

Glad you could join me today.

We have this issue, and I think in many ways it's a societal issue where um we've tried to find ways

to excuse illegal behavior either because well run somebody's side or because we don't want to be

held accountable for our actions and sadly some of the groups that are most well

known for doing this are government actors, including especially law enforcement. Now, let's start with a

referral made last summer by the National Security Agency, the NSA, concerning reports they found in,

among other places, the New York Times earlier in the year,

during the time that Tulsi Gabbard was going through her confirmation process for

Director of National Intelligence, and that these reports quoted information from an intercept

of two Hezbollah terrorist figures who claimed that Ms.

Gabbard, and on 2017 trip, had met with, quote, unquote, the big guy.

Now, of course, New York Times and other suggestions, well, this meant that Ms. Gabbard

had met with, you know, some top Hezbollah terrorist leader, something she adamantly denies.

What the NSA found was that this leaked information came from one of its intercepts that Gabbard had not, in fact, met with Hezbollah leaders.

Now, the agency then said, well, where did this leak come from?

And they're saying, hmm, looks like it came from members of the Democratic Intelligence

Committee, possibly there, or possibly, actually from their staff that they gained, they had access

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