"Since 2002 the U.S. government has been monitoring for suspicious radiation levels outside more than 100 predominantly Muslim-related sites in the greater Washington, D.C., area, as well as various sites in other cities, several government officials with knowledge of the program confirmed to CNN Friday.
One government official said the authorities don't obtain warrants because the testing is conducted from outside the buildings on what they consider public property."
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was created in 1978 after widespread domestic surveillance on civil-rights activists and war protestors. The act states the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court must grant a warrant for domestic government surveillance. The act permits the government to begin surveillance without a warrant, provided a warrant is requested within 72 hours.
US Constitution, 4th Amendment.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The 4th amendment specifically applies to the government. Intelligence agency civil servants are not upholding the US Constitution, and are infringing American civil liberties.
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