On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:03:03PM -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
It is discouraging to see the disdain in which many of you hold the FBI during a time when we need cooperation and insight from nontraditional sources.
The FBI is responsible for counterterrorism efforts in the U.S. They have received billions in this area, one of the most rapidly-growing in their budgets. They have failed miserably. It makese sense, as I said in a BBC interview last week, not to hold them in "disdain," but not to whitewash their failure either. That said, it's hardly unreasonable for Americans to help the FBI (a flight school instructor who recognizes the names of some of his former students in the media might well want to phone the FBI). But cypherpunks can't be blamed for being critical of the FBI's counterrorist efforts so far. -Declan