Roger Parloff writes: As a reporter I salute my professional colleagues for so thoroughly laying bare the recent U.S. Justice Department inquiry that led to the resignation of C.I.A. Director David Petraeus and a related Defense Department inquiry concerning General John R. Allen, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan. But now that the once…
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Marital Communications are “Essential to the Preservation of Marriage” – Unless Made from a Workplace Computer
Gilbert S. Keteltas writes: Communications between spouses are typically accorded a “marital communications privilege” because they are “regarded as so essential to the preservation of the marriage relationship as to outweigh the disadvantages to the administration of justice which the privilege entails.” But marital communications to or from a workplace computer just became less privileged…
Feds spying on innocent Americans just in case we might commit future crimes
Darlene Storm reports: As an innocent American, have you ever wondered how the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) agency gets around your privacy rights when it holds your information in databases for five years to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. . . just in case you might commit future crimes? “All you have to do…
District Court for the District of Columbia sidesteps 4th Amendment issues in Antoine Jones case
Feh. Readers will recall that the Supreme Court sent the Antoine Jones warrantless GPS surveillance case back to the District Court for the District of Columbia after ruling that 28 days of GPS surveillance and use of cell-site data held by a third party provider was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Unfortunately for…