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I don't know what the current law on this issue is,
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Dick.
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Imposing a warrant requirement would be a serious hindrance to the government in monitoring the activities of al-Qaeda.
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And where do you get this amazing bit of information from? "Serious hinderance"??? Please.
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US v. Bin Laden, holding that similar wiretaps (and physical searches) of US citizens involved in terror organizations were subject to the 4th amendment, but that there was an exception to the warrant requirement because it would hinder intelligence-gathering. Also, one of the people at the Volokh Conspiracy, who is presumably less of a dick than you, feels that the subject is
really murky.