Feds monitored air passenger lists to catch friend of Manning

[thewayne]

David House met (then) Bradley Manning and helped set up financing for his legal defense and also visited him in prison, reporting on the harsh conditions of his jail time. The Feds waited for him to leave the country, in this case going to Mexico for a vacation with his girlfriend, then when he returned in November 2010 and went through Customs at O'Hare they seized all his electronics and subjected him to an extended secondary interrogation.

Since entering the country places you in a Constitution-free zone, the Feds were free to search everything without a warrant.

They kept his electronics for 49 days, almost double the legal max of 30 days, and only released them when the ACLU sent a letter.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/manning-friend-database-stalked/

Comments

[silveradept]

And then some. There would have to be effort from both the executive and the legislature to change things, neither of which wants to do anything to change, because their opposition would scream at them about not being tough on security.

Guess we need to fund a way to make the people quit collectively panicking, and disincentivize fear mongering from the politicians.