Resolution resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance. Violations

2. DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE IS DISTINCT FROM ORDINARY CRIME

Pfeiffer 4 Constance Pfeiffer, Juris Doctor candidate, The University of Texas School of Law, May 2004

The Review of Litigation Winter, 2004 23 Rev. Litig. 209 NOTE: Feeling Insecure?: United States v. Bin Laden and the Merits of a Foreign-Intelligence Exception For Searches Abroad lexis

Courts regularly deal with the most difficult issues of our society. There is no reason to believe that federal judges will be insensitive to or uncomprehending of the issues involved in domestic security cases. Certainly courts can recognize that domestic surveillance involves different considerations from the surveillance of "ordinary crime." If the threat is too subtle or complex for our senior law enforcement officers to convey its significance to a court, one may question whether there is probable cause for surveillance. n141