U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border
August 20, 2013 5:57 AM Subscribe
" of the post-9/11 era targets U.S. citizens re-entering their own country, and it has received far too little attention. With no oversight or legal framework whatsoever, the Department of Homeland Security routinely singles out individuals who are suspected of no crimes, detains them and questions them at the airport, often for hours, when they return to the U.S. after an international trip, and then copies and even seizes their electronic devices (laptops, cameras, cellphones) and other papers (notebooks, journals, credit card receipts), forever storing their contents in government files. No search warrant is needed for any of this. No oversight exists. And there are no apparent constraints on what the U.S. Government can do with regard to whom it decides to target or why." (Laura Poitras previously on MeFi)">
This post was deleted for the following reason: There is an active and open thread about the border and the NSA and people being detained and this needs to go there instead. -- jessamyn
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