EXCLUSIVE: Nuclear Monitoring of Muslims Done Without Search Warrants

US News and World Report ^ | 12/22/05 | David E. Kaplan

[alienken]

EXCLUSIVE: Nuclear Monitoring of Muslims Done Without Search Warrants Posted 12/22/05 By David E. Kaplan

In search of a terrorist nuclear bomb, the federal government since 9/11 has run a far-reaching, top secret program to monitor radiation levels at over a hundred Muslim sites in the Washington, D.C., area, including mosques, homes, businesses, and warehouses, plus similar sites in at least five other cities, U.S. News has learned. In numerous cases, the monitoring required investigators to go on to the property under surveillance, although no search warrants or court orders were ever obtained, according to those with knowledge of the program. Some participants were threatened with loss of their jobs when they questioned the legality of the operation, according to these accounts.

Federal officials familiar with the program maintain that warrants are unneeded for the kind of radiation sampling the operation entails, but some legal scholars disagree. News of the program comes in the wake of revelations last week that, after 9/11, the Bush White House approved electronic surveillance of U.S. targets by the National Security Agency without court orders. These and other developments suggest that the federal government's domestic spying programs since 9/11 have been far broader than previously thought.

[alienken]

It's a relief to hear that so much more was being done that what appeared at the time.I hope their is more going on in the background now and would like to see an investigation of who leaked this top secret information.

[Zechariah11]

OLD news!

[rrrod]

I need to clean my glasses....at first I thought it read nuking muslims.....oh well

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Its a step in the right direction.

[Alouette]

Nuclear fishin'

[rrrod]

Only problem with nuking is our grunts will feel left out....geeez they will pout for days. See>>>> conservatives are very considerate of other's feelings.

[Thombo2]

USNews is all worked up(chest thumping indignation)because the gov didn't get warrants.They'll change their tune if a nuclear devise or dirty bomb goes off here.Then they'll say GW didn't do enough to prevent it.We're in a lose lose situation as far as the msm is concerned.

[SoFloFreeper]

GOOD. I'm glad.

[Tax Government]

...federal government since 9/11 has run a far-reaching, top secret program to monitor radiation levels at over a hundred Muslim sites in the Washington, D.C., area

This is absolutely correct. Any person who obstructs should be jailed for impeding the war effort.

[SoFloFreeper]

Damn, I was about to subscribe to USNW--I got a real good subscription deal in the mail from them. I won't do it now. I don't like this "piling on" attitude from the media when it is clear to anyone that the administration is trying to keep nukes out of the hands of lunatics.

[oxcart]

This is snewsweek. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[blackdog]

Sounds like some good work being done! After all.....My county sewage control board snoops around my farm without a warrant or even asking for permission to come onto my farm, which is a felony according to the federal USDA biosecurity laws. The local DNR game warden seems to think he can take strolls around my acreage as he pleases. Even the state cops seem to think they can snoop around my out-buildings after a teenage kegger party got busted in the woods nearby, thinking the kids were hiding in my barn/s. The USDA Farm Service Agency comes around whenever they want and like to check up on things. The FAA likes to come visit and write down plane serial numbers when the mood strikes. So does the state DOT also.

And I have a gated entrance! Only the guardian dogs bring all this to my attention..............

Maybe if Islam didn't frown on dogs as pets..............

[Dont Mention the War]

As far as I'm concerned, this is no different than the long-established garbage rule: Once you throw it out, anyone else is free to go through it.

The truly hilarious thing is that Bush's approval numbers have gone UP since this story came out, and I saw more than one talking head on TV make the argument that it was precisely because of this story.

[Sender]

I am shocked, shocked I tell you. How dare we monitor for deadly radiation weapons? This just shows another side of the Bush culture of corruption.

[McGavin999]

Man, no wonder we haven't been hit since 9-11. Thank God our government is doing all this to protect us.

Looks like the media is doing all in it's power to make sure that the protection ceases so they can increase their circulation when the next attack hits. I believe that is called aiding and abetting the enemy.

Anyone for filing a class action lawsuit against these media types for reckless endangerment?

[TommyDale]

And are we expected to be upset by this news?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Every sensible person I've talked to lately is in favor of this monitoring. If the EPA can monitor dust on a gravel road, we can damned sure monitor people who mean us harm.

[Thombo2]

Good idea.We can hurt them in the pocketbook(Time,Newsweek,USNews,etc)and send them a message at the same time by not consuming their product.

[Bogey78O]

Next cops will need warrants to look at muslims.

[Phsstpok]

there can be no reasonable (or even unreasonable) expectation of privacy that would require a warrant to conduct radiation detection when the authorities are operating on the public right of way.

It's like complaining about someone confessing to murder on live TV and then saying that the police needed a warrant to watch the person on TV in order to use the confession as evidence. Don't get me started on how this same dufus in the MSM would probably argue that the confession couldn't be used since the murderer wasn't read his Miranda rights before he volunteered his confession!

Logic 101 should be a required course for anyone who wants to get into the journalism profession. Hell, we license doctors and lawyers before they can practice, we should make the same requirement of MSM journalists. Not ideological tests, just simple ones about the ability to reason, present facts accurately, spell, things like that.