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EFF Catches Interesting Snippet In Yoo Memo: Fourth Amendment Doesn't Apply

Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 11:26am
Keywords: war on terror, George Bush, torture, due process, United States, iraq, john yoo

While the newly released memo focuses on "asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators," it contains a footnote referencing another Administration memo that caught our eye:

... our Office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.

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