From the EFF;

Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations

Relating to;

“a newly released memo, “Memorandum for William J. Haynes II, General Counsel of the Department of Defense Re: Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States” (March 14, 2003) , which which was declassified and released publicly yesterday.”

“our Office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.”

“Does this mean that the Administration’s lawyers believed that it could spy on Americans with impunity and face no Fourth Amendment claim? It may, and based on the thinnest of legal claims — that Congress unintentionally allowed mass surveillance of Americans when it passed the Authorization of Use of Military Force in October 2001.”

And - the Coup de grâce;

“In short, it appears that the Administration may view NSA domestic surveillance, including the surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans detailed in EFF’s Hepting case, as a “domestic military operation.” If so, this Yoo memo would blow a loophole in the Fourth Amendment big enough to fit all of our everyday telephone calls, web searches, instant messages and emails through.”

Then, dessert;

“And of course it reinforces why granting immunity aimed at keeping the courts from ruling on the Administration’s flimsy legal arguments is wrongheaded and dangerous.”

You and I. We. American citizens. Are now part of the enemy forces. How’s it feel? Feel like time for an impeachment yet? It isn’t too late!

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