For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on U.S. soil didn't apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism.I hope nobody thinks for a minute that "Homegrown Terrorists" would be excluded if it served their purposes.
That view was expressed in a secret Justice Department legal memo dated Oct. 23, 2001.
...The 37-page memo is classified and has not been released. Its existence was disclosed Tuesday in a footnote of a separate secret memo...
Exactly what domestic military action was covered by the October memo is unclear.
Friday, April 4, 2008