FBI Official Defends Radiation Monitoring

[sabra]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/12/23/national/w121823S25.DTL

FBI Official Defends Radiation Monitoring

A classified radiation monitoring program, conducted without warrants, has targeted private U.S. property in an effort to prevent an al-Qaida attack, federal law enforcement officials confirmed Friday.


While declining to provide details including the number of cities and sites monitored, the officials said the air monitoring took place since the Sept. 11 attacks and from publicly accessible areas — which they said made warrants and court orders unnecessary.

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Brian Roehrkasse, a Justice Department spokesman, said Friday that the administration "is very concerned with a growing body of sensitive reporting that continues to show al-Qaida has a clear intention to obtain and ultimately use chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear" weapons or high energy explosives.


To meet that threat, the government "monitors the air for imminent threats to health and safety," but acts only on specific information about a potential attack without targeting any individual or group, he said.

[CJCRANE]

1. Just muddying the waters with more revelations nt

[Kagemusha]

2. If they have specific information

THEN WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST GET THE DAMNED WARRANTS.

[truthisfreedom]

3. like it's invasion of privacy to monitor radiation...

this article is pure distraction...