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tsetsefly
01-09-2008, 08:58 AM
This authoritarian, nazi wannabe must be stopped


Such "stovepiping" of information must not continue. We need to build on the Bush administration's efforts, such as the USA Patriot Act, to break down the barriers among federal agencies and between foreign and domestic intelligence. The Patriot Act removed barriers to information sharing between the intelligence community and law enforcement, but there is still more to do. We must guard against the danger that the newly created Office of the Director of National Intelligence will become just another layer of bureaucracy that impedes the information flow rather than facilitates it. And we need to pay close attention to unsettling lower-court decisions that raise the specter of the wall's re-emergence, and to the weakening of the Patriot Act by judicial fiat.edit:lol that is because the patriot act has been found unconstitutional, omg...

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enacted in 1978 to exclude eavesdropping on foreign communications from judicial oversight, must be modernized and expanded to encompass not just phones, as the current law does, but also newer technologies, such as the fax machine and the Internet. Antiquated laws--enacted when such technologies weren't part of everyday life--cannot be allowed to hamstring our federal law enforcement and foreign intelligence services. Some members of Congress want to throw as many legal obstacles as possible in front of FBI agents and intelligence officers as they try to intercept communications between known al Qaeda leaders and U.S.-based operatives who will carry out attacks. This is the last thing we should do.

Getting and keeping federal agencies communicating with one another isn't enough. An effective homeland security plan also has to establish links to, and make use of, the valuable information collected by the country's 800,000 state and local law enforcement officers. We should view these officers as counterterrorism resources--"first preventers," as the Manhattan Institute's R.P. Eddy calls them. Even beyond uniformed services, people such as DMV clerks, and even everyday citizens, may notice clues that would help law enforcement identify would-be terrorists. It was a clerk at Circuit City, after all, who provided the key tip that enabled federal authorities to stop the Fort Dix plot. (We should also reform liability laws so that individuals who act in good faith, such as those who report suspicious behavior on airplanes, will not get sued for trying to help their fellow citizens. Fortunately, a law authored by Rep. Peter King was recently passed to protect Americans who do just that.)

http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110011099

Now citizens must report on each other, boy I have seen this before?

MrKoffee
01-09-2008, 09:03 AM
Rudy is a joke.

tsetsefly
01-09-2008, 10:43 AM
fyi bump