International Travelers Beware!
The S.F. Chronicle reports that the Bush administration, overturning a 22-year-old policy, now allows U.S. Customs agents to seize, read and copy documents from travelers at airports and borders without suspicion of wrongdoing, at least according to civil rights lawyers at the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco in releasing records obtained in a lawsuit. The government documents and the legal groups’ analysis of them are available here.
KJ