UNITED STATES V. MOHAMUD
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Zakharov, 468 F.3d 1171, 1179 (9th Cir. 2006) (citing United
States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, 494 U.S. 259, 274–75 (1990));
see also Verdugo-Urquidez, 494 U.S. at 274–75 (“At the time
of the search, [respondent] was a citizen and resident of
Mexico with no voluntary attachment to the United States,
and the place searched was located in Mexico. Under these
circumstances, the Fourth Amendment has no application.”).
Thus, the government’s monitoring of the overseas foreign
national’s email fell outside the Fourth Amendment.
Mohamud argues that under Verdugo-Urquidez, the
location of the search matters, and that here, the searches took
place in the United States.22 Indeed, the government
acknowledges that “collection from service providers under
Section 702 takes place within the United States.” Yet, as
one court put it, “what matters here is the location of the
target,” and not where the government literally obtained the
electronic data. United States v. Hasbajrami, No. 11-CR623, 2016 WL 1029500, at *9 n.15 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 8, 2016)
(emphasis in original); see also Kris & Wilson, National
Security Investigations & Prosecutions § 17:3 (2016) (“For
non-U.S. person targets, there is no probable-cause
requirement; the only thing that matters is [ ]the
government’s reasonable belief about[ ] the target’s
location.”).
Consistent with Verdugo-Urquidez and our precedent, we
hold that this particular type of non-upstream collection—
22
Mohamud also argues that the targeted foreign national may have
had sufficient “voluntary connection[s]” to the United States for the
Fourth Amendment to apply. See Verdugo-Urquidez, 494 U.S. at 271,
273. We have reviewed the classified record, and are satisfied that is not
the case here.
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