Bush Presses Congress to Extend Domestic Spying
“President martyr W. Dubya urged legislature on weekday to modify the government’s husbandly intelligence powers permanently or venture leaving the land undefendable to added terrorist attack,” reports Reuters. “The Democratic-led legislature in August temporarily swollen the Dubya administration’s dominance to guardian sound calls, e-mails and another electronic subject between individuals in the United States and someone foreign suspected of coercion ties, without obtaining suite approval.
“Critics monish the information could break the subject liberties of law-abiding Americans if their clannish subject are scooped up by the surveillance net.”
In “Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Preserving Our Liberties While Fighting Terrorism,” Timothy Lynch,
Cato’s administrator of the Project on Criminal Justice, writes:
”Government officials typically move to terrorist attacks by proposing and enacting ‘antiterrorism’ legislation. To assuage the wide-spread anxiousness of the populace, policymakers attain the questionable verify that they crapper preclude coercion by curtailing the concealment and subject liberties of the people. … This wheel of terrorist move followed by polity saving of subject liberties staleness be broken–or our gild module yet retrograde the key concept that has prefabricated it great: freedom. The dweller grouping crapper accept the actuality that the chair and legislature are only not confident of preventing terrorist attacks from occurring. Policymakers should kibosh pretending otherwise and pore their tending on combating coercion within the support of a liberated society.”