Coincidence? Or Stalking? :-)

[Angel Tarragon]

Maybe when it has finished it's mission it will leaf...

...with the wind.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Maybe when it has finished it's mission it will leaf...

Only if it's mission bears fruit.

 

[Pielorinho]

Coincidence: you're barking up the wrong tree. Don't worry, though; it's oakay.

Daniel

 

[HellHound]

Honestly, just because you ren't doing anything illegal is the LEAST reason not to be paranoid. (I've had more than my share of strange run-ins with law enforcement over the years).

(Why don't we [have] a smilie for rolleyes?)

Ask in META - but the short version is it was used quite insultingly on average, and was gotten rid of for that reason.

 

[Psionicist]

If you're not doing anything illeagal, no need to be paranoid.

I dont know about that.

Much of the backlash against the USA PATRIOT Act has been directed at the provisions for Sneak-and-Peek searches. Critics[1] argue that Provision 213 authorizes "surreptitious search warrants and seizures upon a showing of reasonable necessity and eliminates the requirement of Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that immediate notification of seized items be provided."

In special cases covered by FISA (incorporated in the USA PATRIOT Act), the warrants may come from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) instead of a common Federal or State Court. FISC warrants are not public record and therefore are not required to be released. Other warrants must be released, especially to the person under investigation.

A second complaint against Sneak-and-Peek searches is that the owner of the property (or person identified in business/library records) does not have to be told about the search. There is a special clause that allows the Director of the FBI to request phone records for a person without ever notifying the person. For all other searches, the person must be notified, but not necessarily before the search. The judge providing the warrant may allow a delay in notification when there is risk of:

 

[jester47]

Most likely the city truck was stopping by to touch base with you. The cop may have been going anywhere. He has a reason to patrol residential streets. Who knows he may have gotten a call in the hood.

A.