I think it was Bruce who said that they had too much information, and that much of their problem is determining what is valuable and what is chaff. They had most of the clues a reasonable person would need to determine something was up. They lacked the ability to filter out the wheat from the chaff, or else an amazing unwillingness to do so. Rather than attempt to deal with the real issues, the first thing the government started saying is that we need more information (lots more chaff and a bit of wheat). One "good" thing about it, they're giving up a bit on their "war" on drugs. No one apparently has commented on this.
Ashcroft saying they won't do the same thing they did in the '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s gives me no comfort at all. If we can view civil liberties as chickens, we've put a fox in charge of the henhouse.
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Date: 2002-06-01 07:32 am (UTC)Ashcroft saying they won't do the same thing they did in the '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s gives me no comfort at all. If we can view civil liberties as chickens, we've put a fox in charge of the henhouse.