[Rome2000]

"Moussaoui was detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service on charges of violating the terms of his visa. Local FBI investigators in Minneapolis immediately viewed Moussaoui as a terrorist suspect and sought authorization for a special counterintelligence surveillance warrant to search the hard drive of his home computer. This was rejected by higher-level officials in Washington, who claimed there was insufficient evidence to meet the legal requirements for the warrant."

[sam_paine]

I agree that the FBI failed to get enough evidence to convince a judge that there was reason to seize his HDD.

You do realize, though, that even under the Patriot Act, they still would've had to convince the judge for a warrant!!! They merely would've been able to go in and snoop his HDD without notification!! Patriot doesn't solve that problem.

Try again!

[dirtboy]

From post #45:

The first reported case involving the review of a sneak and peek warrant was United States v. Freitas.6 In Freitas, DEA agents obtained eight warrants to search numerous sites used in a large-scale methamphetamine operation. Before those warrants were executed, agents applied for and obtained a sneak and peek warrant for one of those locations to "determine the status of the suspected clandestine methamphetamine laboratory."7

Yep, they're only using this provision to fight terrorism...