Unsurprisingly, the Department of Homeland Security (formerly called the Committee for Public Safety) concluded that searching people's laptops at the border for no reason is a good policy. It based its conclusion on the premise that even a shadow of a possibility of preventing some crime (which could well be an act of journalism) is more important than your freedom. That premise, which the Obama regime seems to hold with increasing vigor, leads in only one direction: to a total surveillance state.