No you don´t. That standard is impossible to judicially assess, and that is why the 4th amendment is cut in favour of judicial review for warrants, on the basis of probable cause that a crime has been committed. period.

I also think that whether americans poll in favour of the 4th amendment or against is a big red herring, and you invest too much energy into accommodating these polls. Consent of the governed is irrelevent to the requirements of the 4th amendment. the Bill of Rights was not intended to protect the majority, but rather, the minority from the majority. Get it ??

Has anyone heard anything of just how many Blackwater mercenaries the bush regime has doing policing duties in the American Gulf (or in Iraq for that matter) and if a contract for even more Blackwater or other mercs has been ratified? Or is that another Security Secret?

“Newsweek

June 6 issue – The bitter debate about John Bolton’s nomination to the United Nations may have called unwelcome attention to the spying practices of the National Security Agency. Bolton told Congress last month that he asked the NSA for the names of Americans in raw intel reports. NSA rules prohibit the agency from spying on Americans; if electronic eavesdroppers inadvertently pick up American names, the NSA is supposed to black them out before forwarding reports to other agencies. But analysts and policymakers can make written requests to the NSA for U.S. names, which the State Department says Bolton did 10 times since 2001.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked for more information about Bolton’s requests, but the administration refused, leading to last week’s vote to delay Bolton’s nomination. Meanwhile, the Senate intelligence committee’s chairman, Pat Roberts, and its top Democrat, Jay Rockefeller, got a closed-door briefing on Bolton’s NSA dealings from the deputy intel czar, Gen. Michael Hayden. The senators agreed Bolton’s initial NSA requests for U.S. names were legit. But the normally collegial Roberts and Rockefeller couldn’t agree on whether Bolton handled the names appropriately once he received them. In dueling letters made public, the senators aired their differences. Senator Roberts argued that Democrats called unnecessary attention to intel “sources and methods” by raising Bolton’s NSA dealings publicly. Rockefeller complained that Bolton sought out a State Department official whose name was supplied by the NSA “to congratulate him”—for unspecified reasons—which Rockefeller said was “not in keeping” with Bolton’s request for the uncensored NSA report. Roberts said this charge was ill founded.

—Mark Hosenball”

I wouldn’t put anything past the Bush Nixonians. I bet other Bush administration officials, in addition to Bolton, requested unredacted raw NSA intel reports, especially people in Dick Cheney’s office. Odds are many State Department officials under Colin Powell were monitored by the Bush Nixonians, primarily during the lead-up to the war in Iraq.

Obviously, Mr. Arkin hasn’t heard of the busy Bush loyalists purging federal departments of any “enemies” of the neo-conservative Bush doctrine.

Democrats. Moderate Republicans. All are on the Bush/Cheney “enemies list.” They are only using the “leaks” issue to facilitate their continuing purges of anyone suspected of caring more for our democracy than the Bush neo-con agenda.

The profiling of Muslims bothers the heck out of me. How many Muslim-Americans came her to escape the theocratic injustices of their country?