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[DoughtyOne]

After all, we’re the government. We should be able to snoop or steal anything you have on a hunch.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The only goal here is to harass legal citizens all the while the borders are leaking like a sieve.

[no-to-illegals]

Come search me. Please.

[Steely Tom]

And I suppose that if one has encrypted his laptop’s hard drive, and declines to give the password for unlocking it, one can be detained indefinitely, based on recent court precedent IIRC.

[jiggyboy]

Ah, “specific and articulable”, we hardly knew ye.

[Gay State Conservative]

My laptop was accessed by Canadian immigration agents a few years ago.They demanded the password and,while they were tearing my car apart,they looked at the contents for about 5 minutes.In all my many travels overseas I’ve only been searched by three countries upon entry...Vietnam,India and Canada.Quite embarrassing and annoying to be sure...particularly by a civilized country like Canada.

[I want the USA back]

The fascists are gaining ground.

[JoeProBono]

[ForAmerica]

Dept. of Homeland Security: Laptops, Phones Can Be Searched Based on Hunches

Are these the same people that does nothing about all the illegal aliens that are in this country illegally and they want to search our personal items on a hunch!? Wow!

[BitWielder1]

Unacceptable. I might have company confidential information on that laptop, that I'm not *allowed* to share.
And who knows how much crap downloaded by dubious websites.
If I was truly up to no good, I could easily have e-mailed and erased any incriminating bits ahead of time, so searching laptops makes no sense at all.
Government afraid of lawsuits if they don't search? Gimme a break!
Probable cause and a warrant should still be required.
No fishing expeditions by paranoid governments.

[spokeshave]

....well....I have a hunch that a certain miscreant at 1600 is using a Blackberry cell phone for nefarious purposes...

[GOPJ]

Some day it will dawn on the American Civil Liberties Union that democrats are thugs who don’t believe in the Constitution. Considering how radical left they’ve become - they might not care..

[Fresh Wind]

Isn’t a following a hunch the same thing as profiling?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

So , “Probable Cause “, as a ‘Law of the Land’ exists no more ?
Is this by adminstrative “guidance” ?
Any test legal case ?
Or is this another “OverReach Interpretation” ?

[tumblindice]

Zero’s people winning more friends by peesing off the AySeeElYou.
Pop some corn, pull up a rock and we’ll watch the police state implode.

[familyop]

The Dept. of Homeland Security can be de-funded based on hunches, too.

[familyop]

If we’re going to fight a war against a foreign enemy, we should be doing just that instead of gazing at our own national navel (descendants of Europe).

[bgill]

Oh, so they can search legal US citizens’ laptops and phones and probably bashing them to pieces in the process but they can’t be bothered to arrest illegals in a Mexican protest parade?

[Nowhere Man]

Makes me wonder why my grandfather went to Normandy for. I asked this in 1983, “what if we (the US) ever became the Evil Empire?” 30 years later, I think Pogo Possum had it right, “we’ve met the enemy, he is us.”