Senate approves USA Act, sends to Bush, Ashcroft vows "newera"

[Declan McCullagh]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:48:44PM -0700, mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:
>  "The first principle is airtight surveillance of terrorists."
>   { obviously since we can't a priori know who is a terrorist
>     and who is not we have to watch everyone. }

Put another way, if the Feds seriously believe someone to be a
terrorist, for chrissakes, arrest 'em! We've seen that habeas corpus
is no deterrent, after all.

There may be limited reasons to keep an honest-to-goodness terrorist
under surveillance, but the new law won't help there -- the FBI already
has the power it needs.

-Declan