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Title: Obama Approves of DNA Sampling Upon Arrest
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Wired News
URL Source: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/20 ... ports-dna-sampling-upon-arrest
Published: Mar 15, 2010
Author: David Kravets
Post Date: 2010-03-15 15:44:03 by noone222
Keywords: None
Views: 116
Comments: 6
Josh Gerstein over at Politico sent Threat Level his piece underscoring once again President Barack Obama is not the civil-liberties knight in shining armor many were expecting.
Gerstein posts a televised interview of Obama and John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. The nation’s chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory DNA testing of Americans upon arrest, even absent charges or a conviction. Obama said, “It’s the right thing to do” to “tighten the grip around folks” who commit crime.
When it comes to civil liberties, the Obama administration has come under fire for often mirroring his predecessor’s practices surrounding state secrets, the Patriot Act and domestic spying. There’s also Gitmo, Jay Bybee and John Yoo.
Now there’s DNA sampling. Obama told Walsh he supported the federal government, as well as the 18 states that have varying laws requiring compulsory DNA sampling of individuals upon an arrest for crimes ranging from misdemeanors to felonies. The data is lodged in state and federal databases, and has fostered as many as 200 arrests nationwide, Walsh said.
The American Civil Liberties Union claims DNA sampling is different from mandatory, upon-arrest fingerprinting that has been standard practice in the United States for decades.
A fingerprint, the group says, reveals nothing more than a person’s identity. But much can be learned from a DNA sample, which codes a person’s family ties, some health risks, and, according to some, can predict a propensity for violence.
The ACLU is suing California to block its voter-approved measure requiring saliva sampling of people picked up on felony charges. Authorities in the Golden State are allowed to conduct so-called “familial searching” — when a genetic sample does not directly match another, authorities start investigating people with closely matched DNA in hopes of finding leads to the perpetrator.
Do you wonder whether DNA sampling is legal?
The courts have already upheld DNA sampling of convicted felons, based on the theory that the convicted have fewer privacy rights. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that when conducting intrusions of the body during an investigation, the police need so-called “exigent circumstances” or a warrant. That alcohol evaporates in the blood stream is the exigent circumstance to draw blood from a suspected drunk driver without a warrant.
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Hope and Change you can believe in.
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#1. To: noone222 (#0)
tsk, tsk. You forgot the trademark. Hope and Change™
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. The right thing to do would be for a sustained meteorite shower to hit the Capital during a joint session of congress.
That shithole is the root of all evil !!!
The World is being held hostage by an international terrorist organization best described as INTERNATIONAL (JEWISH) BANKERS. Their willing accomplices in government and media should swing from the rope just like the banking elites.
I hate to nitpick, but Barack Hussein Obama is a MULATTO Half white, half black. Not really a negro nor a white.
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. - George Carlin
Doesn't much matter. The article title was re-written with the intent of putting a racial spin there the article author and news source editor did not intend. It's coy, and cute, but it is the sort of thing that has the MSM working to destroy fair use reposting of articles. I was taught never to give your adversary ammo while in the Army. Interlocutors here though operate under a different set of rules. They get pissed that I point this out; but I would point out that if I were out to screw anyone, I'd be e mailing the news sources giving heads up to them about this, not giving feedback. ;-)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
Hope and Change you can believe in.
Lord Acton
#2. To: noone222, all (#0)
Obama said, “It’s the right thing to do” to “tighten the grip around folks” who commit crime.
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
The right thing to do would be for a sustained meteorite shower to hit the Capital during a joint session of congress.
#4. To: noone222 (#0)
#5. To: Luke The Spook (#4)
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