IS THERE AN EXERCISE MORE FUTILE...:

Bush's Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept (Ellen Nakashima, August 28, 2009, Washington Post)

The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversight of such inspections. [...]

[R]epresentatives of civil liberties and travelers groups say they see little substantive difference between the Bush-era policy, which prompted controversy, and this one.

...than looking to the UR for anything substantive?

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 28, 2009 7:25 AM