The Return of Black Bag Searches?

New questions are being raised over whether the Bush administration's warrantless domestic spy program is more extensive than has been acknowledged. This week, US News & World Report revealed the Bush administration attempted to authorize government agents to perform physical searches without court warrants. A government official said FBI Director Robert Mueller objected to the proposal, "not only because of the blowback issue but also because of the legal and constitutional questions raised by warrantless physical searches."

Thomas Nelson, is an attorney based in Portland, Oregon. In a letter to a district US Attorney in September, Nelson wrote: "In the past nine months I and others have seen strong indications that my office and my home have been the target of clandestine searches."