[off-topic] roving wiretaps

[snow]

On 2 Aug 1996, David Wagner wrote:
> In article <01I7RM0CJM388Y4XIK at mbcl.rutgers.edu>,
> I don't get it.  Help me out here-- how can this possibly be constitutional?

     It isn't, since when has that stopped them?

> I'm reading the Fourth Amendment to our honored Constitution of the United
> States, which proclaims
> 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.

     You're not having a nightmare, it's reality. 

> Apologies if these are silly questions,

     It isn't the questions that are stupid, it is answers.              

> P.S.  Do police really need a search warrant to wiretap cellular phones?

     No, not to tap the phone, just to use it as evidence.

Petro, Christopher C.
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