meeting with Congress Critter today, need help

re the recent article from US News about the extension
of the "warantless" logic to physical searches.
Mentions the "Gorelick memo" from the Clinton era,
and I believe that the Clinton admin urged some
changes in the law that tightened things
up in light of that memo. Am I right?

looking to be able to refute the
"clinton said it was ok" logic.

There are quite a few hits from Freeperville on the subject, but moving past them, there is one from Daily Kos and another from Media Matters that might prove useful to you. Go to the links to read the articles in full.

Hekate
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Google search terms: "Gorelick memo" + warrantless searches + Clinton administration

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/27/234055/08
Bush’s Poisonous Tree


http://mediamatters.org/items/200508180007?offset=0&show=1
Memo to NY Post, et al: So-called Gorelick "wall" could not have been responsible for military failure to share alleged Atta intel

Summary:

In the past week, conservative media -- including two New York Post columnists and two Post editorials -- have falsely suggested that information obtained by military intelligence purportedly identifying lead 9-11 hijacker Mohammed Atta may have been withheld from law enforcement officials because of a 1995 memo written by then-Clinton deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick. But the Gorelick memo and ensuing guidelines, which conservatives claim created a "wall" between intelligence agencies and law enforcement officials, had nothing to do with military intelligence -- those documents addressed communications only among divisions within the Department of Justice. Moreover, as Media Matters for America has previously noted, the "wall" that conservatives accuse Gorelick of enacting had been operative well before Gorelick -- or Clinton -- took office.
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As is evident from the language of the Gorelick memo itself, it didn't apply to Able Danger. But in response to growing misinformation on the topic in The Washington Times, former Republican senator Slade Gorton, a 9-11 Commission member, specifically addressed and debunked the theory that Gorelick's memo prevented intelligence sharing about Atta in an August 18 letter to the editor in the Times.....

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one that they use to blame the compartmentalization
of pre 911 intel, and another one they are now using to
justify warantless searches?

Gingrich had about someone who did a similar thing to him . . . why was it illegal then?