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More on FBI as "Keystone Kops" sending six to retrieve their found GPS transmitter

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Yesterday was a post about the California man that found an FBI installed GPS on his car, posted here. Yesterday on PogoWasRight is this post: Is there a storm brewing over FBI surveillance? If not, there should be. That post has a link to a TV interview with the GPS target. Wired.com's story is here. One can be assured that the government had made no pre-installation showing of probable cause. What is more surprising is that the FBI actually had to grovel and go to the target and ask for the GPS device back. After all, asking for it back led to them telling him, according to Wired.com's story, that he'd been under surveillance for three to six months. Maybe he wasn't a terrorist after all. If he was, I'd think that they would just put another one on his car and sure not tell him about it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on October 10, 2010 (boomark / email).