Post by red on Apr 2, 2008 10:39:30 GMT -8
Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to DOMESTIC military operations
Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 2, 2008 10:59 AM
Danny sez, "Following on from the memo allowing torture overseas, Kurt Opsahl from EFF has spotted a footnoted reference to a memo from the Administration that says 'our Office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.' So, if you're abroad and deemed an enemy combatant you can be tortured. If you're in the US, and you're caught up in a "military operation", you lose the bill of rights. Where exactly is the constitution supposed to apply?"
www.boingboing.net/2008/04/02/bush-administration-1.html
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/administration-asserts-no-fourth-amendment-domestic-military-operations