4th Amendment, What's That?

''Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States," is the title of the citation, found in a footnote to the torture memo released yesterday. So much for unreasonable search and seizure.
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo headlines his notation of the AP story "Always Read the Footnotes," something the press can't always be relied upon to do.
Second that.

"Our office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations," the footnote states, referring to a document titled "Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States."

Exactly what domestic military action was covered by the October memo is unclear. But federal documents indicate that the memo relates to the National Security Agency's Terrorist Surveillance Program, or TSP.

By the way, this stuff is coming out because the ACLU pushed for the documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
"The administration's lawyers believe the president should be permitted to violate statutory law, to violate international treaties, and even to violate the Fourth Amendment inside the U.S. They believe that the president should be above the law," said an ACLU expert.
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