Since September 11, the Fourth Amendment has been eroded in ways we do not even know. The scary part is that it’s going to take years to undo the damage.
David Shipler
David K. Shipler is the author of The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties (Knopf). The second volume, Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America (Knopf), will be published in 2012. He writes online at The Shipler Report.