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UNITED STATES V. MOHAMUD
the United States government learned that Mohamud was in
contact with that foreign national, who was located overseas.
This contact—a limited number of emails between Mohamud
and the foreign national—was used to obtain a FISA warrant
to surveil Mohamud and his activities. None of these emails
was introduced at trial.21 We permitted the parties to file
supplemental briefs to address the facts offered in the postargument disclosure.
a. No Warrant Required to Intercept
Overseas
Foreign
National’s
Communications or to Intercept U.S.
Person’s Communications Incidentally
As a threshold matter, “the Fourth Amendment does not
apply to searches and seizures by the United States against a
non-resident alien in a foreign country.” United States v.
21
We address only Mohamud’s as-applied challenge. See United
States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739, 745 (1987) (“A facial challenge to a
legislative Act is, of course, the most difficult challenge to mount
successfully, since the challenger must establish that no set of
circumstances exists under which the Act would be valid.”). Though he
also purports to challenge § 702 facially, citing City of Los Angeles v.
Patel, 135 S. Ct. 2443, 2451 (2015), Mohamud does not explain why
techniques not employed in this case would require suppression of the
evidence gathered here. We do not read Patel to permit courts, in a
criminal prosecution, to suppress evidence based on a Fourth Amendment
challenge to techniques not employed in a particular case. See, e.g.,
United States v. Posey, 864 F.2d 1487, 1491 (9th Cir. 1989) (“[W]e think
it clear that appellant may not make a facial challenge to the FISA without
arguing that the particular surveillance against him violated the Fourth
Amendment. . . . Even if he is correct that the FISA’s language might be
applied in ways that violate the Fourth Amendment, he must show that the
particular search in his case violated the Fourth Amendment. Appellant
cannot invalidate his own conviction on the argument that others’ rights
are threatened by FISA.” (emphasis in original)).
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