Bush: Government Can Open Your Mail

by @ 8:10 am on January 6, 2007.

Just encase you didn’t notice another one of your freedoms being screwed with … 

 White House Says It Has Always Had Such Power, to Be Used in ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’

Jan. 4, 2007 — President Bush says he and other government officials have the power to snoop through your mail without a judge’s warrant.

Bush made the claim last month in a signing statement attached to a postal reform bill. Bush wrote that the bill “provides for opening of an item of a class of mail otherwise sealed against inspection.”

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