"The ACLU, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and other groups have sued to stop the practice, saying that it violates First and Fourth amendment rights. They say allowing agents to act on a hunch encourages racial profiling. Some activists say they also worry that the FBI and other federal investigators are using laptop searches at the border to collect intelligence on terror and criminal suspects without judicial checks.
Catherine Crump, the ACLU lawyer who first requested the report, said it is the first detailed explanation of why the government believes it doesn’t need a reason to open a laptop or storage device and download files for further review. She described as inadequate the government’s argument that imposing a legal threshold to perform such searches would lead to lawsuits.
“That’s just not good enough,” Crump said. “A purely suspicionless search opens the door to ethnic profiling.”
What is it with this Administration that they are of the opinion that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights doesn't apply to them and their Agents?
I'm sorry but the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are there to SPECIFICALLY LIMIT what the Government can do. It's not a suggestion or a guideline, it is the EXPRESS SCRIPT that says you MAY NOT do that.
H/t OldNFO
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