Memo on administration position on illegal serches comes to light

[deminks]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - For at least 16 months after the Nine Eleven terror attacks, the Bush administration believed the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil didn't apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism.

That view was expressed in a secret Justice Department legal memo from October 2001. A spokesman now stresses that the department disavows that position. However, he wouldn't say exactly when that legal opinion was overturned internally.

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[Bonobo]

1. Undeclared martial law. Nice.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. K & R. Soon to be AG Gonzales was giving the Bush the validation for ignoring the Constitution.

Would love to see those "arguments".

[deminks]

3. More Info here

http://www.dailymail.com/News/200804020722

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The 37-page memo is classified and has not been released. Its existence was disclosed Tuesday in a footnote of a separate secret memo, dated March 14, 2003, released by the Pentagon in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.

"Our office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations,'' the footnote states, referring to a document titled "Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States.''

Exactly what domestic military action was covered by the October memo is unclear. But federal documents indicate that the memo relates to the National Security Agency's Terrorist Surveillance Program, or TSP.

That program intercepted phone calls and e-mails on U.S. soil, bypassing the normal legal requirement that such eavesdropping be authorized by a secret federal court. The program began after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and continued until Jan. 17, 2007, when the White House resumed seeking surveillance warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

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[fascisthunter]

4. Impeachment off the Table Pelosi? We now Live in a Dictatorship... good Job!

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