9/11 Gone Wild: We are asked to destroy country in order to save it

[kpete]

William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security
9/11 Gone Wild

What has happened since the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks is as pernicious and as damaging as any abuse or panic or misstep of the past: We must pledge allegiance to a certain post 9/11 Order, abandon the rule of law, compromise our values, turn against our neighbors, enlist in a clash of civilizations, all in the name of defeating the terrorists.

We are being asked to destroy our country in order to save it.

In October 2001, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to collect intelligence on U.S. persons -- citizens and residents -- suspected of having connections to al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

It is a giant fishing expedition as much as it is a highly targeted campaign. The hundreds of millions of intercepts and data points are massaged by the data miners and link analyzers and churned through banks of computers and dozens of new software programs in pursuit of the holy "connecting of the dots."

They just might track a license plate to a cave in Pakistan.
http://www.dccc.org/stakeholder/
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2005/12/911_gone_wild.html#more

[Jade Fox]

1. Strange column.....

One minute he talks like an Administration mouthpiece, the next he is writing the very eloquent criticisms you quote above.