Re: [privacy] Judge Rules Part of Patriot Act Unconstitutional

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 9/26/07, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:

> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20999950/
>
> - - ferg

> From same article:
"The Mayfield case has been an embarrassment for the federal
government. Last year, the Justice Department's internal watchdog
faulted the FBI for sloppy work in mistakenly linking Mayfield to the
Madrid bombings. That report said federal prosecutors and FBI agents
had made inaccurate and ambiguous statements to a federal judge to get
arrest and criminal search warrants against Mayfield."

So which is it, they didn't get a warrant or they did?

If they did, did they present probable cause (and I'm not asking if it
was accurate and specific - obviously, according to this last
paragraph, it wasn't)? If so, how does it not satisfy the requirements
of obtaining a warrant, in a way that couldn't have been circumvented
prior to the Patriot Act?

I'm asking, not commenting.
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