I suspect that 0.5% is not the fraction of searches that most Congress members voted for when authorizing this law after 9/11 -- "The 2013 report confirms the

I suspect that 0.5% is not the fraction of searches that most Congress members voted for when authorizing this law after 9/11 -- "The 2013 report confirms the incredibly low numbers. Out of 11,129 reports only 51, or .5%, of requests were used for terrorism. The majority of requests were overwhelmingly for narcotics cases, which tapped out at 9,401 requests." This is always the case with these kinds of authorizations - a few years pass, people forget, and suddenly an anti-terrorism "narrowly targeted" drone strike via the "disposition matrix" becomes the go-to strategy for all police SWAT teams. This is exactly what we saw in Ferguson recently..