From Breitbart/AP:WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department on Monday released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants.
The legal memo was written about a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It says constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure would not apply to terror suspects in the U.S., as long as the president or another high official authorized the action.
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My Comment: In the weeks after 9/11, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld mentioned that we were going to get our hands dirty going after Al Qaeda and their supporters. I (and most Americans) knew what he meant, and expected nothing more.
The content of these memos do not surprise me one bit.
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