DEA Ordered to Suspend Airport Searches Amid Civil Rights Concerns
The Justice Department has directed the DEA to suspend its long-standing practice of searching passengers at airports and seizing their cash.
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Column: Homeland Security Exposes Constitutional Loop Hole to Conduct Searches
Dale McFeatters The Eagle-Tribune The Founding Fathers valued privacy enough to specify in the Fourth Amendment that the people had the right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures unless a warrant was issued. Among other items, they specified “papers.” In a rare moment of shortsightedness, they failed to specify laptops, cellphones and thumb…