Flutterby™! : Your Rights

I find this kind of confusing. I always assumed that the Constitution and Bill of Rights a list of things that the Government is supposed to do and not do. In that assumption is that belief that these guidelines define our Government. I know that Guantanamo Bay stretches those guidelines significantly - but those are not American citizens and suspected terrorists. But what I didn't realize is that those guidelines for our Government don't apply to our Government's treatment of American citizens who aren't quite on American soil.

This comes from a Wired article about random laptop searches by the Border Patrol. Somehow, the Government thinks there isn't anything wrong with turning on someone's laptop and routing through their files!