Re: Secret Warrants and Black Bag Jobs--Questions

[Declan McCullagh]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:59:55AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> So much for the Fourth Amendment, which was designed to protect against 
> precisely this kind of police and state snooping. When a scrap of paper, 
> issued in secret, enables the king's men to wander through a house, the 
> "secure in one's papers and possessions" right has become moot.

Yeah. I was in the courtroom in Newark last week for the hearing, and
this wasn't a topic at all. The judge didn't care about the secret
entry, just wanted to learn more about how the bug worked.

-Declan