Harvard University professor Alan Dershowitz, known for having President Trump’s ear, reacted to news that President Trump’s personal attorney’s phones were wiretapped with a dystopian take.
“Well I think we are moving closer and closer to the surveillance state where phone calls are tapped, where emails are secured without a real basis,” he said. “I think prosecutors should not be seeking wiretaps on lawyers’ offices and search warrants and subpoenas for lawyers, e-mail files, unless they have very substantial evidence of very serious crimes. Campaign contributions don’t qualify, for the kind of crime that should justify the wiretapping of a lawyer.”
Cohen gets wire tapped once, Dershowitz: “We’re moving closer and closer to the surveillance state.” pic.twitter.com/XZ7dQZ0sud
— Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) May 3, 2018
Presuming all this were so,
man, I wonder what party started that terrible PATRIOTic ball rolling.
That is to say, lol Dersh has a sad
We’re moving closer and closer to the kleptocratic autocracy too. Take your pick.
Only if Facebook is now the government.
Deep State conspiracies and paranoia is where the privileged white boys of the far right and far left come together to trade stories.
I look forward to hearing more from the soon to be former Harvard law professor. He knows better.
The Dersh says, “I think prosecutors should not be seeking wiretaps on lawyers’ offices and search warrants and subpoenas for lawyers, e-mail files, unless they have very substantial evidence of very serious crimes."
So we agree on the standard. Dersh knows as well as we do that to convince a federal judge to authorize the unannounced raid, the FBI had to present “very substantial evidence of very serious crimes,” along with evidence that an unannounced raid was necessary to prevent the evidence from being destroyed.