The DHS, which secures the nation’s border, in 2009 announced that it would conduct a “Civil Liberties Impact Assessment” of its suspicionless search-and-seizure policy pertaining to electronic devices “within 120 days.” More than three years later, the DHS office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties published a two-page executive summary of its findings.
Thats 1095+ days, but hey, who's counting. I guess it was important that we get Obama reelected beforehand. “We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits,” the executive summary said.
The arrogance of declaring that they have made these conclusions without publishing their reasoning is just infuriating. It is transparently obvious that a policy REQUIRING A REASON before searches take place would have a "concomitant civil liberties benefit." DHS Watchdog OKs 'Suspicionless' Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border | Threat Level | Wired.com |