privacy is a SMOKESCREEN.

[Duncan Frissell]

See.  Right-wing nuts are good for something.

>from eff:
>
>CNN reports: "Key members of the Senate blamed House conservatives for 
>the failure, saying they had insisted on linking proposed new
>wiretapping authority for the FBI to an expansion of privacy laws."
>
>CNN quotes Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) as saying that House Republican
>leaders "have come up with this smokescreen called privacy".