11-05-2012, 04:02 AM
michaelb wrote: Generally, you don't have "constitutional rights" when you are out of the country.
You do insofar as as actions by the U.S. government are concerned. Nothing in the Constitution exempts citizens from
constitutional protections while traveling.
...Except for 100 miles inland from every border of the U.S. (The Customs and Border Protection division of the Department of Homeland Security claims that they have a mandate that includes this region, allowing them to conduct warrantless searches and to indefinitely detain any suspect in this region, covering roughly 2/3rds of the population of the U.S.)
http://www.aclu.org/national-security_te...-free-zone
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_...on,00.html
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/0...es-aboard/
http://chronicle.com/article/Far-From-Ca...ve/125880/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28...-Free-Zone