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...race and gender to help identify suspicious passengers. And thanks to a new software program dubbed the Threat Image Protection System that will soon appear on X-ray machines across the nation, the FAA will periodically be able to paint virtual images of guns or explosives onto the monitor to test and better prepare screeners for the real thing...
Just one day after last week's attacks, the Senate also approved a provision expanding the circumstances under which law-enforcement agencies can force Internet service providers to hand over information about subscriber e-mails. If the Federal Government were to monitor more e-mails, a key question would be whether it would hold on to them for some time or dispose of them almost at once, as it now does with the information obtained from instant background checks mandated by federal law for gun purchases. Americans may be willing to let their e-mails pass one time through...
...gathering methods that have taken second--or last--priority for years. We need face-to-face information collection: Who are these people, what are their intentions, and what can be done to disrupt their plans and arrest them? Technology is still important--night-vision gear, small handheld devices that monitor conversations and confirm identities--but more crucial will be a willingness to risk our personnel. Military intelligence will send our people into hostile situations under cover or with limited backup...
...despite the recent broadening of federal surveillance powers, only a minority of students—18 percent—were willing to allow government agencies to monitor telephone calls and e-mails of ordinary Americans on a regular basis to reduce the threat of terrorism...
...Operatives recruited in France helped staged a series of bombing attacks during 1995 that left eight dead and around 150 wounded. French anti-terrorist police ultimately tracked down the bombers, and developed an extensive "human intelligence" capability to monitor the wider networks of which they'd been a part. French law-enforcement was also aided by a catch-all crime law: Simply by citing "association with wrong-doers involved in a terrorist enterprise," French police are able to arrest and detain any suspect in any crime whose goal, however remotely, can ultimately assist terrorist activity. That law shocks civil libertarians...