Editor's Pick: Government Surveillance: What to Do, What to Do?

Government Surveillance: What to Do, What to Do?

Richard Adhikari Apr 21, 2015 10:36 AM PT
	It's not so much that intelligence agencies spy on people. After all, that's their job, contended law professor Derek Bambauer. The question is whether their operations are legally sanctioned. U.S. persons "might" have some Fourth Amendment claims against surveillance, he said, "but the Supreme Court has been very careful never to address this issue, and I don't expect it to do so." [More...]

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