(N.Morgan) The mysterious cell phone towers that began to spring up all over the country now has an explanation, thanks to an agent from the FBI. He basically admits our 4th Amendment right is meaningless and that what they are doing isn't wrong or tromping on our rights to privacy.

(The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.)

 FBI Director James Comey  surprisingly came clean about Operation Stingrays and the mass surveillance being perpetrated on the American people. In fact, Comey said that the FBI is telling local law enforcement who use its equipment to stay mum about the whole thing.

“When we’re talking about using a device to find the location of a particular individual and where they might be using their cell phone, it’s not about intercepting their calls,” Comey said.

“It may be about finding what cell tower someone’s phone is pinging off of and with proper authority, we, the feds, and our local brothers and sisters have to be able to do that to investigate all kinds of things,” he added. “It’s how we find killers, it’s how we find kidnappers, it’s how we find drug dealers, it’s how we find missing children, it’s how we find pedophiles. It’s work you want us to be able to do.”

The press conference actually occurred back in October, but the video didn’t surface until this weekend and hadn’t been reported on until the Charlotte Observer’s excellent investigation into the use of Stingrays by local police was published on Sunday. Stingrays work by allowing police to track the movement of a suspect, and are often used without a warrant, which was recently declared unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court. Comey’s comments are about par for the course for the director—lots of talk about “bad guys” and semantic arguments: “‘Bulk collection’ means something very different to me, and also ‘collection’ to me means something very different,” he said. Comey also said that the agency has “nothing to hide” from “good people,” but that secrecy is important if Stingrays are going to be effective. Comey doesn’t note, however, that, in trying to track down any one “bad person,” the agency law enforcement necessarily tracks the locations of everyone within a wide geographic radius, thanks to the way the technology works.

“To me, it’s about we are using some equipment appropriately to find bad guys. I don’t want to say too much about that, because I don’t want the bad guys to know,” he said. “One of the reasons we ask local authorities who are working with us and using our equipment not to talk about it. It’s not because I have something to hide from good people—I have a lot to hide from bad people.”

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