Justice Department memos from 2001 are seen in Washington Monday, March 2, 2009. The Justice Department on Monday released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
:: Nine documents/memos were released by the DOJ today, and posted online.
All are related to the war on terror, dated between 2001-2002, and one of the memos indicates that the Bush administration was looking for ways to accomplish warrantless wiretapping within a couple of weeks of the events of 9/11,
In this excerpt from an AP report, the writer is referring to one of the documents.
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Monday released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants.
The legal memo was written about a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It says constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure would not apply to terror suspects in the U.S., as long as the president or another high official authorized the action.
