This was forwarded on to me.

Kopel’s latest…
Fourth Amendment Sneak Attack
Reno’s outrageous Secret Searches measure.
By Dave Kopel, of the Independence Institute
The Reno Department of Justice is very good at being sneaky. The DOJ’s lobbyists are on the verge of successfully sneaking into law a provision
which will authorize federal agents to stealthily enter people’s homes, search the homes, and not tell anyone. The Secret Searches measure is so outrageous that it would have no chance of being enacted as a bill on its own, when subjected to public scrutiny and debate. So instead, the DOJ has nestled the Secret Search item deep inside a
long bill dealing with methamphetimines. The measure is further disguised with the innocuous title of “Notice Clarification.”
Subject to virtually no public discussion, the Secret Searches item has already passed the Senate, hidden inside the methamphetimine giant S. 486. Next week, the House Judiciary Committee will take up H.R. 2987, the House version of the Senate bill, which also contains the buried clause on Secret Searches (section 301). The federal bankruptcy reform bill (which has passed
both houses, and is currently in a conference committee) likewise has the hidden Secret Searches language. If the Secret Searches provision became law, it would apply to all searches conducted by the federal government, not just searches involving methamphetimines or bankruptcy.

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