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Dates: during 2001-2001
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This problem stems from the low threshold of evidence needed for conversations to be monitored at all. Rather than the probable cause required by the 4th Amendment, the attorney general need merely “certify?? that the person in custody might be attempting to communicate to others about a future terrorist plot. Similarly weak grounds would suffice for a prosecutor to listen to the recordings and use them as a basis for a fishing expedition into the possible wrongdoings of the person in custody and anybody implicated in the conversations...

Author: By Brian J. Wong, | Title: Ashcroft's Disregard for Justice | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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