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This 12-page paper provides an essay on whether the idea of the U.S. intelligence community's eavesdropping on U.S. citizens working abroad is constitutional or legal. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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that information is private, especially when being brought from outside the country. Yet in a lawsuit filed some years ago by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, stories popped up about U.S.
citizens being detained at customs at border crossings, and cell phones and computers being taken (Anonymous, 2006). In one case, a U.S. citizen arriving from Jordan had her cell phone
taken from her purse (Anonymous, 2006). The womans daughter tried calling her repeatedly while she was being questioned (Anonymous, 2006). When the phone was returned, all records of her daughters
calls were gone (Anonymous, 2006). Also, in that same airport, a tech engineering returning from a business trip to London was
asked, by a federal agent, to type his password into his laptop computer, despite the mans protests that the laptop belonged to the company, not him (Anonymous, 2006). Eventually, the
man, a U.S. citizen, logged on while the federal officer took notes of the websites he had visited (Anonymous, 2006). Nor are these stories isolated instances - computers and cellphones
being seized are rampant - all in an effort to combat terrorism. Its probably no coincidence that the people whose devices were searched were of Muslim, Middle Eastern or South
Asian background, though they were American citizens (Anonymous, 2006). The lawsuit, filed in 2006 by the EFF and Asian Law Caucus,
was to force the government to disclose policies on border searches (Anonymous, 2006). The government, on the other hand, as argued that its authority to protect the countrys borders means
information in electronic devices should be looked at - without any suspicions of a crime (Anonymous, 2006). The reason, the government points out, is that its no different than opening
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