Administration Claimed Immunity To 4th Amendment
The EFF has uncovered a troubling footnote in a newly declassified Bush Administration memo, which asserts that 'our Office recently [in 2001] concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.' This could mean that the Administration believes the NSA's warrantless wiretapping and data mining programs are not governed by the Constitution, which would cast Administration claims that the programs did not violate the Fourth Amendment in a whole new light — after all, you can't violate a law that doesn't apply. The claimed immunity would also cover other DoD agencies, such as CIFA, which carry out offline surveillance of political groups within the United States."
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/04/03/1219200
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/administration-asserts-...
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spyfiles/27988pub20070117.html
Wartime powers require a declaration of war.
Too bad for Bush that he didn't bother to ask the congress to take care of the legal formalities.
-jcr
"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the child." -- Hugh Daniel
The audacity of the Bush administration is unbelievable at times
This is one of those times. They don't feel that the 4th Amendment applies? It'd almost be funny if it weren't true.
Hahaha!!
This is just too funny. It is just begging for mockery the stupidity they are displaying. I hope Stewart or Colbert picks this up but it might be a bit too highbrow.