Steve Chapman on Obama’s Desire to Search Your Cell Phone

The surprising thing about the Supreme Court’s
decision on police searches of cell phones was its unanimity.
Aligned on the same side of a major law enforcement issue were
liberal and conservative justices who normally fight like cats and
dogs. All agreed that it’s intolerable to let cops ransack the
voluminous contents of mobile phones.

Who could disagree? Well, cops, of course. And the Obama
administration, writes Steve Chapman.

Barack Obama led Americans to believe that he would be far more
sensitive to privacy and civil liberties than George W. Bush. But
more often than not, he reflexively indulges the demands of law
enforcement agencies—and, for that matter, all agencies. In clashes
between government and the individual, the president almost
invariably sides with the former, observes Chapman.

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