| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
U.S. Navy Caught Spying On Whole State
‘This is the real militarization of police – when the military becomes the police’
WND
A child pornography case in Washington has shockingly escalated as an appeals court determined the U.S. Navy has been engaged in a “routine” and “widespread” program of “hacking” into private citizens’ computers and turning over information to law enforcement agencies.
In a decision filed Sept. 12, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals called the revelations such a “massive” and “extraordinary” violation of the law it threw out evidence the Navy had collected against Michael Allan Dreyer of Algona, Washington, who had been sentenced in 2012 to 18 years in prison for distribution of child pornography.
The judges ruled Logan’s action a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the military from enforcing civilian laws, and warned greater action needs to be taken to stop the NCIS from continuing the practice.
“There could be no bona fide military purpose to this indiscriminate peeking into civilian computers,” Senior 9th Circuit Judge Andrew Kleinfeld wrote in a concurring opinion with the majority. “Letting a criminal go free to deter national military investigation of civilians is worth it.”
Reposted with permission
