Administration Asserted a Terror Exception on Search and Seizure

The Justice Department concluded in October 2001 that military operations combating terrorism inside the United States are not limited by Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, in one of several secret memos containing new and controversial assertions of...
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Dan Eggen and Josh White

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