Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

More tips for terrorist from the media

American Thinker:

Media outlets are now racing each other to expose vital national security secrets to mass-murdering terrorists. US News & World Report just gave our enemies another tip: Don’t store your dirty bomb materials in a mosque.

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As a result of this criminal leak of a vital program, future terrorists will be sure to store their radioactive materials outside of mosques. Now we do not know where to look.

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The media acts like the war is over with the terrorist and they are now making war against the Bush administration.

Jim Robbins points out the Supreme Court has decided similar type searches are legal:

... Readers would do well to examine the Supreme Court case Illinois v. Caballes, decided earlier this year. The Court ruled that when a dog sniffed out drugs during a routine traffic stop, without a warrant, it did not constitute an illegal search because, in the words of Justice Stevens, "Official conduct that does not 'compromise any legitimate interest in privacy' is not a search subject to the Fourth Amendment. Jacobsen, 466 U.S., at 123. "The Court noted that "any interest in possessing contraband cannot be deemed 'legitimate,' and thus, governmental conduct that only reveals the possession of contraband 'compromises no legitimate privacy interest.' Ibid." Note that in an earlier case, Kyllo v. US, the Court ruled that thermal detection devices could not be used to surveil houses without a warrant because this would compromise privacy -- the difference being that such devices pick up licit as well as illicit activity. In his dissent in that case, Justice Stevens pondered whether "public officials should not have to avert their senses or their equipment from detecting emissions in the public domain such as ...radioactive emissions .. which could identify hazards to the community. In my judgment, monitoring such emissions with 'sense-enhancing technology,' ... and drawing useful conclusions from such monitoring, is an entirely reasonable public service." Clearly Caballes rather than Kyllo controls in the case of using detection equipment to pick up emissions from nuclear materials banned under 18 USC 831 since, to quote Stevens' majority opinion, such activity "reveals no information other than the location of a substance that no individual has any right to possess."...

See also Gateway Pundit's roundup and comments on American's attitude about looking for dirty bomb materials. Ranting Prof has a hypocracy alert, noting previous stories by ABC News on smuggling nuclear material into the US and contrasting coverage of the surveillance of Mosques.