Another Precedent as noted by the New York Times...
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/...CY+ON+SEARCHES
If link doesn't work, just hand type it. Here is the goods in quotes...
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Originally Posted by Robert Pear, NYTimes 11/9/1980
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8--Justice Department lawyers say that the President still has the "inherent authority" to order searches without warrants to collect foreign intelligence within the United States, despite the criminal conviction this week of two former officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who said they had approved such searches in 1972 and 1973.
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I understand that it was this precedent that allowed for the Aldrich Aimes arrest. (Help, struggling to find a good link for that)
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