CONSTITUTIONALITY AND LEGALITY OF NSA SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

Abstract

When the Bill of Rights was crafted by our Founding Fathers, they felt impelled to include the Fourth Amendment to protect American citizens from unreasonable search and seizures unless probable cause was justified and a warrant issued. As politics, public opinion and technology evolved over the next two hundred years, the interpretation of the Fourth Amendment has also evolved and been continuously debated by Americans and all three branches of the government. Recently, the top-secret surveillance programs of the National Security Agency (NSA) has again brought the constitutional protections of the Fourth Amendment to the forefront of national debate.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2013
Accession Number
AD1022980

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  • Bradley L Brandt

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  • Air Command and Staff College

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Civil Rights
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Governments
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Judicial Branch
  • Law
  • Law Enforcement
  • Law Enforcement Officers
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Social Media
  • Supreme Court
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • United States District Courts
  • United States Government

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