Question:
Does the fed govt have the right to search a home without a warrant?
theypissonourbacksandsayitsrain
2007-12-29 06:24:58 UTC
or evidence of criminal behavior by the home owner? How about ...does the fed govt have the right to go to a city's library and download information on all its customers book reading/movie renting habits, and then go to a major phone company and download records of all people who have made calls overseas, and then run some sort of programs that will cross match those making phone calls overseas with those who happen to have rented books or movies that are considered subversive...and then dig up banking records and medical records information on those people........all this without a warrant and without proof of any illegal activity??
Fourteen answers:
fairly smart
2007-12-29 06:41:50 UTC
They can under the so called "Patriot" act!

Welcome to Bush country!
dasuberding
2007-12-29 06:45:28 UTC
No, the Feds cannot search your home without a warrant. This would be a violation of you constitutional rights but the Feds CAN search public record databases, such as library computers and any companies databases, if these companies are receiving federal funding.
backburner001
2007-12-29 06:33:38 UTC
The government does not need proof of illegal activity to obtain a warrant. Obtaining a warrant to search a home for proof of illegal activity would be pointless if the federal government already needed proof of illegal activity. The government, at any level, needs probable cause to obtain a warrant to search your home. The same applies to library information, phone records, medical records, etc. That's a direct result of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution.



Certain exigent circumstances or homeowner consent allows the government to search a home.
2007-12-29 06:47:24 UTC
Theoretically no, a person is protected against unreasonable searches ans seizures by the fourth amendment;however, the passing of the Patiot Act in 2001 has made it easier for federal law enforcement agencies to side step this requirement.
David_the_Great
2007-12-29 08:50:51 UTC
The federal government does not have the right to search my home without a warrant out of the blue.
2007-12-29 06:33:16 UTC
no they can't search ur home withou a warrant but they now can write their own warrants because of the patriot act.



before the patriot act an fbi agent had to go a judge and say i need a search warrant,the judge would ask what do u need it for and do u have pravable caue,but now they can write their own warrant without having to prove probable cause
Cookies Anyone?
2007-12-29 06:42:17 UTC
NO, they don't have that "Right". but you are confusing Rights with ability.



We don't have Posse Comitatus anymore either....



President Bush has signed a directive granting extraordinary powers to the office of the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight...

It was issued with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive.



The directive establishes under the office of the president a new national continuity coordinator whose job is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.



"Catastrophic emergency" is loosely defined as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

______________________________...



"......Section 1076 of the John Warner Defense Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 2007 grants the president the right to commandeer federal troops or state National Guard to use them domestically. The language of that legislation allows the president to use federal troops or the National Guard in federal service in a wide range of emergencies, including natural disasters, epidemics or other public health emergencies, terrorist attacks, insurrections, or domestic violence, including conspiracies to commit domestic violence....."



NSPD-51 and HSPD-20 make no specific reference to the National Security Act under U.S.C. Title 50 or the requirement of that act that the president bring a declaration of a national emergency to Congress immediately and publish the declaration in the Federal Register.
2007-12-29 06:40:31 UTC
It's called The Patriot Act. Repeal it!!
buttram
2016-10-09 12:58:14 UTC
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Arcanum Noctis
2007-12-29 06:41:05 UTC
They can do it illegally. But if they get caught, people aren't going to think lightly of it.
t. B
2007-12-29 06:31:02 UTC
No the constitution protects you against unreasonable search and seizure of private property. If you are not doing any thing wrong you have no need to worry.
Colin M
2007-12-29 06:35:09 UTC
I'll take FBI for 500 alex.
Duminos
2007-12-29 06:36:05 UTC
no.



Are you doing something illegal?
Mitchell
2007-12-29 06:33:21 UTC
No, it's unconstitutional.


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