Why even have a Constitution...

...if your government's going to pretty much ignore it at its pleasure:

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

Civil liberties and business travel groups have pressed the government to disclose its procedures as an increasing number of international travelers have reported that their laptops, cellphones and other digital devices have been taken -- for months, in at least one case -- and their contents examined.

In April, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld the government's power to conduct searches of an international traveler's laptop without suspicion of wrongdoing.

The article says at least one Senator plans to introduce legislation to corral this practice. That's unnecessary. For the benefit of the Ninth Circuit Court, who've apparently never heard of OR read the Constitution, allow me to quote the Fourth Amendment:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

If Uncle Sam refuses to follow that provision from the basic charter of the government, it doesn't matter HOW many statutes Congress passes.

It seems to me we can just about write a laundry list of how the Feds have blown past every stop sign in their charter--a list of grievances, as it were, longer than the ones the colonists aimed at King George. So what does that tell you?