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Research question:
Should the government have permission to wire-tap your phones and search your electronic devices if they think that you will have terrorist information?

Lewis, Harry. "Who Else Reads Your E-mail?" Christian Science Monitor Oct 2008. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008. http://www.sirs.com.

Harry Lewis is a cocerned writer that works for The Christian Science Monitor. In this article, Lewis examines wire-tapping in an everyday person point of view. He talks about the ease of getting information by the government(U.S.), and also icludes the censorship of messages in China. The next thing Lewis talks about is the New York Times exposing the unwarranted wire-tapping happening in the United States at this moment. Finally he ends by giving a quote from a minority in the court of a wire-tapping case which is "[H]eaven forbid that we should intrude on the government's investigatory province and actually require it to abide by the mandates of the Bill of Rights. I can only imagine what our founding fathers would think of this decision.".

Chertoff, Michael. "Searches Are Legal, Essential" USA Today Information Network Jul 2008. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. Edina High School. 8 Dec 2008. http://www.sirs.com

Michael Chertoff is the secretary of homeland security. He wrote this article to try and prove that what his department is doing is right. First he argues that ever since the begining of time governments have had the right to stop dangerous people. He says that in the 21st century the dangerous things are child pornography and terrorist images which are both contained electronically. Chertoff says that only a small fraction of people are searched and many have terrorists have been caught. Finally he asserts that, not searching electronic devices at our borders would be an open window for terrorists and criminals.