DOJ abandons warrantless attempt to read Yahoo e-mail

CNET | April 16, 2010 | Declan McCullagh

[Daffynition]

The U.S. Justice Department has abruptly abandoned what had become a high-profile court fight to read Yahoo users' e-mail messages without obtaining a search warrant first.

In a two-page brief filed Friday, the Obama administration withdrew its request for warrantless access to the complete contents of the Yahoo Mail accounts under investigation. CNET was the first to report on the Denver case in an article on Tuesday.

[Sprite518]

And if we ever try to do what they do, and I still bet they do, then they throw us in jail. But it’s ok for them to violate our rights... That’s the way it works with them.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

They ran into this damn thing called the Constitution.

Either that or they figured out a way to do it without getting caught and will go about doing it anyway.

[Whenifhow]

The article from CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002722-38.html

[tax-serf]

I want the T-Shirt concession for that design....