White House Query Led Lawyer to Write Memo Saying Bush Could Ignore Fourth Amendment

Eleven days after 9/11, John Yoo, a former deputy in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, drafted a 20-page memorandum that offered up theories on how Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures would be applied if the U.S. military used “deadly force in a manner that endangered the lives of United States … Continue reading White House Query Led Lawyer to Write Memo Saying Bush Could Ignore Fourth Amendment