Huffington Post links to this article at USN&WR:
John Martin, a former Justice Department attorney who prosecuted the two most important cases involving warrantless searches and surveillance, says the department is sending an unambiguous message to Congress. “They couldn’t make it clearer,” says Martin, “that they are also making the case for inherent presidential power to conduct warrantless physical searches.”[...]
Lovely. Just what I wanted to read the morning after having gone to see V for Vendetta.
The article goes on to describe a report from one terror suspect’s attorney of a couple of odd encounters his partner has had with a “member” of a cleaning crew. I won’t go into the details here…you can read the article if you’re curious…but I think the article author might be stretching a little bit to argue that a surreptitious recovery of mis-disclosed documents is essentially the same as a warrantless search. True, they’re both reprehensible, but the logic flow there isn’t quite right.