Memo linked to warrantless surveillance备忘录联系在一起的无证监察
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WASHINGTON - For at least 16 months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in 2001, the Bush administration believed that the Constitution’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures on US soil didn’t apply to its efforts to protect against terrorism.华盛顿-在至少1 6个月后， 9月1 1日恐怖袭击事件在2 001年，布什政府认为，宪法的保护，反对不合理的搜查和扣押在美国本土并不适用于它的努力，以保护打击恐怖主义。
That view was expressed in a Justice Department legal memo dated Oct. 23, 2001.这一观点表示，在司法部法律备忘录日期为2001年10月23日。 The administration on Wednesday stressed that it now disavows that view.政府当局就周三强调，现在disavows这一观点。
The October 2001 memo was written at the request of the White House by John Yoo, then the deputy assistant attorney general, and addressed to Alberto Gonzales, the White House counsel at the time. 2001年10月的备忘录是在书面的要求，白宫由约翰柳，那么副助理总检察长，并给部长冈萨雷斯，白宫律师的时间。 The administration had asked the department for an opinion on the legality of potential responses to terrorist activity.政府当局已要求该部为一的意见的合法性潜在的回应恐怖活动。
The 37-page memo has not been released. 37页的备忘录中并没有被释放。 Its existence was disclosed Tuesday in a footnote of a separate secret memo, dated March 14, 2003, released by the Pentagon in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.它的存在是透露，周二在一个脚注，一个单独的秘密备忘录，日期2003年3月14日，五角大楼随后还公布在回应资讯自由法的诉讼由美国公民自由联盟。
“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.” “我们的办公室最近得出结论认为，第四条修正案并没有应用到国内的军事行动， ”脚注国，指的一份文件，题为“权力使用武力打击恐怖主义活动，美国” 。
Exactly what domestic military action was covered by the October memo is unclear.究竟国内的军事行动所涵盖的10月的备忘录是含糊不清。 But federal documents indicate that the memo relates to the National Security Agency’s Terrorist Surveillance Program, or TSP.但联邦的文件表明，该备忘录涉及到国家安全局的监视恐怖分子的计划，或移交被判刑人士。
That program intercepted phone calls and e-mails on US soil, bypassing the normal legal requirement that such eavesdropping be authorized by a secret federal court.该程序截获的电话和电子邮件在美国本土，绕开正常的法律规定，这种窃听授权，一个秘密的联邦法院。 The program began after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and continued until Jan. 17, 2007, when the White House resumed seeking surveillance warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.该计划开始后，九月十一日的恐怖袭击，并一直持续到2007年1月17日，当白宫恢复寻求监察认股权证从外国情报监视法院。
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said Wednesday that the Fourth Amendment finding in the October memo was not the legal underpinning for the Terrorist Surveillance Program.白宫发言人托尼弗拉托说，周三认为，第四修正案，寻找在10月的备忘录没有法律依据，为恐怖监察计划。
“TSP relied on a separate set of legal memoranda,” Fratto told The Associated Press. “移交被判刑人士依赖于一个单独的一套法律备忘录， ”弗拉托告诉美联社记者。 The Justice Department outlined that legal framework in a January 2006 white paper issued by the Justice Department a month after the TSP was revealed by The New York Times.司法部概述了这一法律框架，在2006年1月发表白皮书司法部一个月后，移交被判刑人士透露了新的纽约时报。
The October memo was written just days before Bush administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, briefed four House and Senate leaders on the NSA’s secret wiretapping program for the first time. 10月备忘录的书面前几天，布什政府官员，包括副总统切尼，并向客人介绍了四众议院和参议院的领导人就国家安全局的秘密窃听计划的第一时间。
The government itself related the October memo to the TSP program when it included it on a list of documents that were responsive to the ACLU’s request for records from the program.政府本身有关的10月的备忘录移交被判刑人士计划时，把它列入一份名单的文件，分别为回应美国民权联盟的要求，记录从该计划中。 It refused to hand them over.它拒绝交出他们。
Late Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said department officials believe the October 2001 memo was not about the eavesdropping program, but he did not explain why it was included on requests for documents linked to the TSP.周三月底，司法部发言人布赖恩此前表示，署官员认为， 2001年10月的备忘录是不是对窃听计划，但他没有解释为什么它被列入提供文件的要求联系在一起的移交被判刑人士。
Earlier, Roehrkasse said the statement in the footnote does not reflect the current view of the department’s Office of Legal Counsel.此前，此前的声明说，在脚注并不反映当前视图该部的法律顾问办公室。
“We disagree with the proposition that the Fourth Amendment has no application to domestic military operations,” he said. “我们不同意命题，即第四修正案并没有应用到国内的军事行动， ”他说。 “Whether a particular search or seizure is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment requires consideration of the particular context and circumstances of the search.” “是否有特定的搜索或扣押是合理的根据第四修正案，需要考虑的特定背景和情况，搜索” 。
Roehrkasse would not say exactly when that legal opinion was overturned internally.此前不会说，正是当法律意见被推翻国内。 But he pointed to the January 2006 white paper.但他指出，到2006年1月白皮书。
“The white paper does not suggest in any way that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to domestic military activities, and that is not the position of the Office of Legal Counsel,” he said. “白皮书并没有建议在任何方式的第四次修订，并不适用于国内的军事活动，这是没有的立场，法律顾问办公室， ”他说。
Suzanne Spaulding, a national security law expert and former assistant general counsel at the CIA, said she found the Fourth Amendment reference in the footnote troubling, but added: “To know (the Justice Department) no longer thinks this is a legitimate statement is reassuring.”苏珊斯波尔丁，国家安全法专家和前助理总法律顾问在美国中央情报局说，她发现第四条修正案的参考脚注困扰，但他说： “知道（司法部）不再认为这是一个合法的声明欣慰的是， “ 。
“The recent disclosures underscore the Bush administration’s extraordinarily sweeping conception of executive power,” said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project. “最近披露，强调布什政府的非常笼统的概念，行政权力，说： ”贾米尔贾弗主任，美国民权联盟的国家安全项目。 “The administration’s lawyers believe the president should be permitted to violate statutory law, to violate international treaties and even to violate the Fourth Amendment inside the US They believe that the president should be above the law.” “政府的律师认为，总统应被允许违反法定的规定，违反国际条约和，甚至违反第四修正案，美国境内，他们认为总统应凌驾于法律之上” 。
“Each time one of these memos comes out you have to come up with a more extreme way to characterize it,” Jaffer said. “每一次之一，这些备忘录出来，你必须想出了一个更极端的方式的特点， ”贾弗表示。
The ACLU is challenging in court the government’s withholding of the October 2001 memo.美国民权联盟是具有挑战性的在法庭上，政府的隐瞒2001年10月的备忘录。
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