Device Security: How Border Searches Are Really Used

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @02:06AM from the nature-of-the-state dept.

onehitwonder writes "Newly released documents reveal how the government uses border crossings to seize and examine travelers' electronic devices instead of obtaining a search warrant to take them, according to The New York Times' Susan Stellin. The documents reveal what had been a mostly secretive process that allows the government to create a travel alert for a person (regardless of whether they're a suspect in an investigation), then detain that individual at a border crossing and confiscate or copy any electronic devices that person is carrying. The documents come courtesy of David House, a fund-raiser for the legal defense of Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Pfc. Bradley Manning." A post at the ACLU blog (besides being free of NYT paywall headaches) gives more details, and provides handy links the documents themselves.

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Chelsea? by stevegee58 · 2013-09-10 03:12 · Score: -1, Troll

Until Bradley Manning has his name officially changed by a court order, his name is still Bradley.
Maybe people should stop catering to every silly whim of this traitor just because he's on their "Free Bradly Manning" tee-shirt.