Word: warrantless
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...Ironically, even as the NSA was launching its warrantless wiretap program in 2002, the Justice Department was rejecting a Republican senator's efforts to make it easier for the NSA to spy legally on persons in the U.S. In the summer of 2002, Ohio Republican Sen. Mike DeWine introduced a bill to lower the level of proof the Justice Department and spy agencies would need to get a FISA warrant to wiretap foreigners, or non-U.S. citizens, who were in the United States. For these "non-U.S. persons" only, the threshold would drop from "probable cause" to "reasonable...
...that in cases where the NSA does not first go to the courts, "the trigger is quicker and a bit softer than it is for a FISA warrant." Putting it more bluntly, Philip B. Heymann, a former Clinton Administration deputy attorney general, says, "The only reason they are doing warrantless searches is because they want to do them on considerably less basis than probable cause-and I would guess on less than reasonable suspicion...
...eavesdropping controversy turned out to offer a foothold. "If somebody from al-Qaeda is calling you, we'd like to know why," Bush declared, while polls showed Americans weren't particularly concerned about warrantless wiretapping if authorities were using it to try to fight terrorism. When a new threat on tape from Osama bin Laden emerged, Bush was set up to return to the stage as Protector in Chief, the Republicans' award-winning role in the past two elections...
...administration. Late last week, according to the Albany Times-Union, lawyers for an Albany man accused of trying to sell missile launchers to terrorists asked a federal district court to dismiss the charges because evidence leading to his being targeted in an FBI sting operation was allegedly obtained by warrantless wiretapping. Gonzales was asked on CNN about terror suspects and wiretapping evidence. "I can't speak to specific cases," he said. "What I can say is we believe the program is lawful." But since not everyone sees it that way, the President might decide to seek a little extra assurance...
...D.Mass.1998); Sheriff of Middlesex County v. International Bhd. of Correctional Officers, Local R1-193, 62 Mass.App.Ct. 830, 831-832 (2005). A deputy sheriff has authority to take actions that a private person would not have in similar circumstances. A deputy sheriff may make warrantless arrests for misdemeanors, but only if the misdemeanor involves a breach of the peace, occurs in their presence or view, and continues at the time of arrest. See Commonwealth v. Howe, 405 Mass. 332, 334 (1989); Commonwealth v. Grise, 398 Mass. 247, 251- 252 (1986). The fact that some individual HUPD officers have been appointed...