"The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. Two hundred years of court decisions have stood in defense of this fundamental right. The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights." -- Senator John Ashcroft (R - Mo.) USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, October 1997 http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itgic/1097/ijge/gj-7.htm