DHS Using 'Intuition and Hunch' as Border Gadget Search Guidelines
That's probably a diplomatic way of saying "profiling"
The Department of Homeland Security's civil rights watchdog has concluded that "intuition and hunch" are among the primary reasons why it is "inadvisable" to establish constitutional safeguards protecting travelers' electronics from being searched for any reason along the U.S. border.
The DHS, which secures the nation's border, on Wednesday released a redacted report of its "Civil Rights/Civil liberties Impact Assessment" (.pdf) pertaining to border searches of electronic devices, including laptops and mobile phones. In February, the DHS disclosed an executive summary of the 21-page report, concluding then that "imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits."
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LEOs won’t abuse anything as vaguely defined as ‘reasonable’.
It’s not the same as “Probable cause”, but while “hunch and intuition” are very subjective, they take over when we are trying to be objective, but just can’t see what the other parts of our brain see.
I think they can prompt a second look, yes.