Dept. of Reasonable Expectations: The Case Against Warrantless Wiretapping, A Thesis

AFTER MANY CONVERSATIONS with my thesis advisor, a thesis "therapist" and writing consultant, and two close advisors, who, between them, share expertise in public policy and thesis development at the doctoral level, I have crafted a working thesis statement that will serve as a solid foundation for the balance of my work on this project:

In order to protect American citizens’ Fourth amendment protections against illegal search and seizure through warrantless wiretapping, statutory reforms should be implemented vis-à-vis the intelligence community to make it prohibitively difficult for the President of the United States to secretly engage in warrantless wiretapping.