An excerpt from my article from last week... Lago is talking about USA Patriot and so on in his "went crazy" reference. Also see Sen. DeWine's related bill (it's so extreme that even the Justice Department has criticized it, albeit mildly): http://news.com.com/2010-1071-948283.html?tag=politech -Declan --- http://news.com.com/2100-1001-956827.html [...] "Civil libertarians just went crazy," said Philip Lago, deputy executive secretary at the CIA. Because the CIA's records are classified, "I can't share with you the successes, and there have been literally hundreds of them," Lago said at the conference. Lago said that while the intelligence community is sensitive to concerns about overly broad surveillance, laws can complicate effective intelligence-gathering. "The National Security Agency is working on the Fourth Amendment thing," Lago said. He added that legal restrictions against spying on U.S. citizens are not controversial, but those same limitations pose a problem when immigrants and tourists can benefit from the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on "unreasonable" searches. "I wish we could make every single member of this country--there goes this democracy thing, right?--read those New York Times articles (about victims of the World Trade Center) and realize what this is about," Lago said. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan CNET Radio 9:40 am ET weekdays: http://cnet.com/broadband/0-7227152.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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