Government
Apr. 20, 2007
Letter Imperfect
Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The flap over the FBI's gathering of personal information about thousands of Americans highlights a problem as old as the Constitution.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
By Erwin Chemerinsky
History teaches that unchecked government power inevitably will be abused. Thus, no one should be surprised by a report released last month by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General that chronicles significant abuse by the FBI in obtaining highly personal information about individuals by issuing national-security letters.
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