!!!!!!!!Warrantless PHYSICAL Searches!!!!!!!!!!!

[kpete]

FROM ATRIOS:

Warrantless Physical Searches


According to Countdown, US News and World Report will tell us tomorrow that Bush administration lawyers (Torture Yoo and Abu Gonzales presumably) after 9/11 made the case that Bush had the power to engage in warrantless physical searches of terrorism suspects on domestic soil.

Cue wingers screeching Clinton/Aldrich Ames. I actually don't agree with what Clinton did with Aldrich Ames, but it nonetheless isn't the same thing as at the time the FISA law had no provision for dealing with physical searches. After the FISA law as amended the Clinton administration didn't argue they could violate the law.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_03_12_atrios_archive.html#114264535199163884



AND FROM DAILY KOS:

US News announces

Fri Mar 17, 2006 at 06:42:35 PM PDT
Just saw on Olberman that US News will publish a story that the Justice Department has authorized domestic search and seizure of homes and offices without warrant.


According to Keith, this is the same legal finding that they used for the NSA warrantless wiretaping.

Let's see how many Senators sigh up for Censure now. Maybe they will bypass censure and go right to impeachment.

I am sick to my stomache.

The U.S. News article will be published on their site tomorrow (Saturday) evening and will be the lead story in the magazine published Monday.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/17/204235/876