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.: warrantless searches may be coming soon to a neighborhood near you! :.
17 March 2006
.: warrantless searches may be coming soon to a neighborhood near you! :.
According to one of Keith Olbermanns stories tonight, U.S. News and World Report will publish a story that White House and Justice Department lawyers argued for warrantless searches on U.S. soil.
Here is the transcript via Raw Story:
Soon after the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, lawyers for the White House and the Justice Department argued that the same legal authority that allowed warrantless electronic surveillance inside the United States could also be used to justify physical searches of terror suspects' homes and businesses without court approval.
According to two current and former government officials, the Bush Administration lawyers presented the arguments to senior FBI officials who expressed strong reservations about the proposal.
It could not be determined whether any warrantless physical searches had been carried out under the legal authority cited by the Administration, but at least one defense attorney representing a terrorism suspect has alleged that his law office and home may have been searched without a court warrant.
Read the transcript of Keith and GW Law School Professor Jonathon Turley discussing this at Daily Kos where there is also a video link.
This White House is getting scarier by the day.
--Update--
Amendment IV reads: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
--Update--
Here is the article on US News and World Report. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060327/27fbi.htm
I would suggest checking out the Daily Kos and reading the updates on the site in relevence to this story. If I could write well this is what I would have to say: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/18/93926/4816.
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Posted by: Peter - 10:20 PM MST | Updated: 18 March 2006 6:44 PM MST
Tags: Civil Liberties News
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