Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches

The Washington Post ^ | August 19, 2013 | Timothy B. Lee

[MinuteGal]

Alex Trebek: "The answer is...'Unreasonable search and seizure'. For $1000, what is the question, Justice Roberts?"

Leni

[bamahead]

Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!

[chessplayer]

Come on, people! Wrap yourselves in the flag and be Super Patriots! If this, that, or whatever is for “national security,” we don’t need no steenkin Constitution! All hail The State!

[Karliner]

Don’t own a cell phone. I borrow one on long trips say to doc( 200 miles round trip or more) but always take the care out...just precautionary...

[1010RD]

I do love what the ‘War on Drugs’ has done for my liberty!

[1010RD]

You’re incorrect by several decimal points to the right. It’s easily up over 300 million reasons.

[Sopater]

"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."

Yeah, there's that... :-)

[RedMDer]

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[WayneS]

Careful.

Obama might be reading this thread...

...and you might give him an idea.

[I want the USA back]

If it had been Bush, the NYT would have it on its front page every day.

[MeshugeMikey]

The WIndow Dressing of Tyranny!

If Baghdad Bob is still alive....Jay Carneys job is in jeoprady!

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[MeshugeMikey]

Careful.

Obama might be reading this thread...

...and you might give him an idea

.ya think barrys ready to hire a new press secretary??

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[Impy]

I thought liebruls were against police overreach. Only when there’s a Republican in the White House, eh?

[Grampa Dave]

“Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches.”

Anyone, who doesn’t realize that this has been done since 2009 is suffering from severe liberal self inflicted brain damage.

[Grampa Dave]

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Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
The Washington Post ^ | Ellen Nakashima

Posted on Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:59:34 AM by originalbuckeye

The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material.

In addition, the court extended the length of time that the NSA is allowed to retain intercepted U.S. communications from five years to six years — and more under special circumstances, according to the documents, which include a recently released 2011 opinion by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates, then chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.