Well, I don't know the facts, and I certainly take newspaper stories with a few grains of salt these days. But, to be frank, this seems pretty logical to me.
Folks, think about it. Government has a tendency to screw up, and they have an even greater tendency to gather excessive power. To paraphrase P. J. O'Rourke, giving no-knock search warrant power to judges is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys ... expect trouble.
Regards from AZ