Treasure of Sierra Madre exception to the 4th Amendment

Josh Marshall has been reporting on contracts for "intelligence services" which Duke Cunningham briber, Mitchell Wade, had directly with the executive office of the president. Josh links to a story tonight (3/17) by Jonathan Landay of Knight-Ridder: "A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., to help it collect data on houses of worship, schools, power plants and other locations in the United States." full story here MZM Inc., headed by Mitchell Wade, also received three contracts totaling more than $250,000 to provide unspecified "intelligence services" to the White House. Treasure of Sierra Madre from the famous scene wherein the banditos don't appreciate the challenege to their masquerade as legitimate federal authorities: ''Dobbs:'' "If you're the police, where are your badges?" ''Gold Hat:'' "Badges!? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!!" update: in a related story, over at dailykos, mcjoan reports that Keith Olbermann had a short segment on his show with GW Law School Professor Jonathon Turley, in which they discussed an upcoming report in U.S. News & World Report that says the White House has used its justification for warrantless wiretaps for domestic searches of suspects homes and businesses. (mcjoan says the online version of the magazine story won't be up until tomorrow night) update: Crooks and Liars has video of the Olbermann/Turley exchange.