Summary
After September 11, 2001, the Justice Department began asking for more and more "tools" to help law enforcement agencies identify potential terrorist threats and, as administration spokesmen like to say, "protect the American homeland."
No conservative can disagree with the goal, and virtually all understand the need to provide effective tools to those responsible for rooting out terrorists and blocking their plots within our borders. But many are beginning to ask if there has been enough thought about the impact on privacy and constitutional rights of all the "tools" acquired since September 11 and the new ones sought today.See the full content of this document
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Guarding Liberties
Increasingly, conservatives outside Washington express real concern about giving federal law enforcement more power in the name of national security. They fear the "tools" the government seeks to protect us from our enemies eventually could circumscribe our own liberties. Given the maneuvering over H.R. 3179, they h...
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