Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

November 13, 2012

In every police state, nobody is immune to surveillance. As former CIA Director David Petraeus has learned, this principle even applies to those who preside over the secret police. 

In order to have access to the CIA director?s private e-mails, the FBI would have had to obtain a federal court order or issue a national security letter ? a constitutionally bogus search warrant written by an FBI Agent on his own supposed authority.

In this case, the inquiry that eventually brought down the CIA Director was driven by a rogue agent with a political agenda who took an inappropriate interest in Jill Kelly, the woman who filed a complaint after receiving harassing e-mails from Petraeus?s mistress. That agent kept the inquiry going even after his superiors told him to back off. Eventually it was discovered that Kelly, a married mother of three, had exchanged tens of thousands of reportedly inappropriate e-mails with General John Allen, who had replaced Petraeus as head of the U.S. military command in Afghanistan.

Civil liberties commentator Glenn Greenwald observes that there is an ironic element of justice at work here as the elites who preside over the national security state fall into the pit they?ve dug for the rest of us.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.