Showing posts with label warrants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warrants. Show all posts

Emily Bazelton: Do Police Dogs Invade Our Privacy

Chemicals found in drugs are also elsewhere.     When I see a police dog inside a train station or at a public gathering, I feel safer. I figure it is there to protect us from explosives, and if it sniffs out drugs along the way, well, that's against the law, too. But what if it turns out that the dogs aren't all that good at the job the police are   ... MORE

Obama Increases Warrantless Surveillance Of Citizens

US spies on political activists without probable cause. The U.S. government has been “spying on political activists without probable cause” for decades, a practice that has been exacerbated in recent years, says Kris Hermes, a spokesman for the National Lawyers' Guild in Chicago. “The U.S. government has had a history of spying on political activists for    ... MORE

New Warrantless Wiretap Ruling Makes Spying Legal

by Dan Graziano. A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of President George W. Bush’s controversial Terrorist Surveillance Program, which allows the government to spy on Americans without a warrant. The court reversed an earlier decision in which two American attorneys were awarded more than $20,000 in damages and their lawyers        ... MORE

The Number Of Americans Spied Upon Is Too High To Count

by Andrew Napolitano. Gazillions. That's the number of times the federal government has spied on Americans since 9/11 through the use of drones, legal search warrants, illegal search warrants, federal agent-written search warrants and just plain government spying. This is according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who, when he asked the government to tell him what it was ... MORE