[off-topic] roving wiretaps
David Wagner
daw at cs.berkeley.edu
Fri Aug 2 08:38:33 PDT 1996
In article <01I7RM0CJM388Y4XIK at mbcl.rutgers.edu>,
E. ALLEN SMITH <EALLENSMITH at ocelot.Rutgers.EDU> wrote:
>
> The Administration's proposal would also significantly expand current
> wiretapping authority to allow multi-point (or "roving") wiretaps. This
> would dramatically change surveillance authority to include wiretaps of
> INDIVIDUALS instead of LOCATIONS.
>
I don't get it. Help me out here-- how can this possibly be constitutional?
I'm reading the Fourth Amendment to our honored Constitution of the United
States, which proclaims
[...]
no warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause,
supported by oath or affirmation,
and *particularly describing the place to be searched*,
and the persons or things to be seized.
Are we just to strike out that emphasized phrase? What's going on here?
Someone tell me I'm not just having a bad nightmare.
Apologies if these are silly questions,
-- Dave Wagner
P.S. Do police really need a search warrant to wiretap cellular phones?
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