I mean, we all sort of recognized that they were acting as if the Fourth Amendment’s protections against “unreasonable searches and seizures” had been suspended.  But, this week, documentation emerged that, in fact, the so-called “legal scholars” at the so-called Department of “Justice” officially concluded this to be the case:

”Our office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations,” the footnote states, referring to a document titled ”Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States.” [That document was authored by John Yoo. –S.]

The footnote in question was part of a raft of documents released by the Pentagon this week to the ACLU under a Freedom of Information Act request.  If you’re not depressed enough, read the whole AP story.

So, to paraphrase Eliot…

This is the way our freedom ends
Not with a bang but a footnote.