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Setting ourselves up for more 9/11s. - By Stewart Baker - Slate Magazine
Topic: Civil Liberties 12:27 pm EDT, Sep 27, 2007

We couldn't find al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi in August 2001 because we had imposed too many rules designed to protect against privacy abuses that were mainly theoretical. We missed our best chance to save the lives of 3,000 Americans because we spent more effort and imagination guarding against these theoretical privacy abuses than against terrorism.

I feel some responsibility for sending the government down that road.

This is an interesting discussion of the line between intelligence gathering and law enforcement that hasn't been recommended here before. I have some thoughts about this that perhaps I'll discuss at phreaknic.

Setting ourselves up for more 9/11s. - By Stewart Baker - Slate Magazine



 
 
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