Wake Up before the water reaches boiling and the noose closes too tight to move. [Archive]

Parker2112

11-24-2010, 06:22 PM

Wake Up before the water reaches boiling and the noose closes too tight to move.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/130549-next-step-for-body-scanners-could-be-trains-boats-and-the-metro-

“[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,” Napolitano said in an interview that aired Monday night on "Charlie Rose."

“I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime. So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?”

Parker2112

11-24-2010, 08:19 PM

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45559.html

If Americans don’t want the government touching their “junk” to improve air security, the alternative may well be greater scrutiny of passengers’ travel histories and personal backgrounds, security experts say.

The public backlash (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45506.html) against the aggressive pat-downs the federal government rolled out this month could put more pressure on the government to introduce security measures previously rejected on privacy grounds, including in-depth interrogations of travelers at airports, government scrutiny of passengers’ airline information, and even creation of a secure, standardized national ID card.

“The question is, which kind of privacy do you want to have?” said Stewart Baker, a top Department of Homeland Security (http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/DepartmentofHomelandsecurity) official during the Bush (http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/GeorgeWBush) administration. “This has been a pretty searing experience for DHS. Obviously, we’re not going to do more in this area [of physical checks] and it would be welcome if we could do less….The alternative is to look for terrorists in advance.” (read: brand citizens as terrorists in advance of wrongdoing :grim:)

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