Feingold: Chertoff Misleads on Laptop Searches
Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin)Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level:
Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold opposes border agents searching through Americans' laptops without cause, and he doesn't like how Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff articulated the government's current policy in an interview with Threat Level on Monday.More here.
In that conversation, Chertoff said that in practice, border agents rely on a real suspicion to decide whose laptop to look into or even seize, but that he opposes creating a legal standard for searching Americans' electronics at the border since it would just lead to too much litigation.
Feingold, an outspoken civil libertarian -- the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act -- begs to differ.
posted by Fergie @ 8/07/2008 05:16:00 PM
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