Clinton judge protects Obama and NSA

Larry Klayman discusses two judges with opposing views on the NSA spying on Americans.

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Bruce

'Earlier today, a federal judge in New York City issued a ruling that trashes the U.S. Constitution Obama-style, endorses absolute tyranny over the American people and runs interference for an unbridled and runaway National Security Agency (NSA). The judge’s name is William Pauley III, regrettably my former classmate at Duke University, but also someone who has now protected a Democratic president who I suspect hopes will now appoint him to a higher post, perhaps even the Supreme Court when Justice Ginsburg retires.

The ruling of Judge Pauley, who found that the NSA’s grossly overbroad and unbridled collection of metadata on all 300 million-plus U.S. citizens is peachy keen, since the government has an absolute right to secretly spy on all Americans, is an outrage. Here are excerpts from his opinion, which he likely issued on a Friday to try to deep six critical media scrutiny.
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To the contrary, the courageous judge in my lawsuit against President Obama and the NSA, the Honorable Richard J. Leon, who found that the NSA’s overly broad spying without regard to terrorist threats is unconstitutional and in fact “almost Orwellian” – that is typical of a police state – ruled this way when he preliminarily enjoined the NSA from further abuse of the people’s right to be secure from unreasonable searches of their private and most confidential information:

“I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary invasion’ than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for the purposes of querying it and analyzing it without judicial approval.”
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Contrasting these two judges and their decisions, it is clear who worships at the altar of a government god and who respects and enforces the God-given constitutional rights of the American people. Judge Pauley regrettably embodies what as a whole the judiciary has become: the “yes men” of the ruling establishment – whereas Judge Richard J. Leon is a rare jurist for We the People and thus an American hero.'