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ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention

Posted by kdawson on from the single-file-please dept.

gavron writes "The ACLU has filed suit against DHS to stop the TSA from conducting illegal searches and detention. In the case at hand, TSA detained a Ron Paul staffer who was carrying $4,300 in cash in a metal box. The suit seeks to focus TSA searches on things having to do with increasing security on aircraft, instead of their current practice of 4th-amendment-violating searches, such as those of laptops, iPods, etc."

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  1. Re:TSA people are not legally informed by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "I am okay with government security screening,..."

    I am not.

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    Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
  2. Re:What took them so long? by raddan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Because airspace is not private property. Carriers have to play by the federal government's rules if they want to use a public resource.