[Infowarrior] - DOJ: No 4A protection when talking to foreigners

[Richard Forno]

DOJ Says Americans Have No 4th Amendment Protections At All When They Communicate With Foreigners

We've already questioned if it's really true that the 4th Amendment doesn't apply to foreigners (the Amendment refers to "people" not "citizens"). But in some new filings by the DOJ, the US government appears to take its "no 4th Amendment protections for foreigners" to absurd new levels. It says, quite clearly, that because foreigners have no 4th Amendment protections it means that any Americans lose their 4th Amendment protections when communicating with foreigners. They're using a very twisted understanding of the (already troubling) third party doctrine to do this. As you may recall, after lying to the Supreme Court, the Justice Department said that it would start informing defendants if warrantless collection of information under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) was used in the investigation against them.

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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140514/17240227239/doj-says-americans-have-no-4th-amendment-protections-all-when-they-communicate-with-foreigners.shtml

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