Pentagon Seeks A Loophole In The Privacy Act

CygnusXII writes "As reported over @ wired.com. It seems that Homeland Security isn't the only govermental body wanting to keep a database on the good old U.S. population. 'The bill would allow Pentagon intelligence agents to work undercover and question American citizens and legal residents without having to reveal that they are government agents. That exemption currently applies only to law enforcement officials working on criminal cases and to the CIA, which is prohibited from operating in the United States.' Kinda adds a whole new meaning to 'We want you!', or should it be 'We want all your secrets'?"

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An honest man...

[u-238]

Has nothing to hide.

You would think the destruction of two sky scrapers and the death of over 3000 would knock some sense of reality into all ye ACLU zealots.

Need they drop a nuke or dirty bomb before such methods of interrogation is accepted? They're likely to be whats next, anyway.

Hard to pathom any American, even the most fanatic left idealist, could prioritize an intangible 'right' over the lives of thousands, if not millions.

Re:after a declaration of war? What in hell is 9/1

[Master of Transhuman]

A minor act of terrorism far smaller than the terrorism conducted by the US in the Phillipines
and elsewhere - including Iraq and Afghanistan.

"War" is a conflict between state (and perhaps ethnic) actors.

"Terrorism" is not "war" (except in the sense that all conflict between groups is "war") and cannot be combated by (conventional) "war". It can only be combatted by a combination of counterintelligence and policy change. Remove the reasons for the support of terrorists by populations and you can then remove the terrorists who are then by definition limited in number. Any other approach is counterproductive.

NOTHING the US has done since 9/11 has had any significant effect on the ability of terrorists to function against the US or the rest of the world. See the Google news page on any given day for this obvious fact. Ergo, use of the military and the rhetoric of "war" to combat terrorism has been an abject failure.