Poindexter?

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<h3>Homeland Security cabinet level agency = bad idea</h3>
<a href="http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=11355&c=206">Holy crap , I agree with the ACLU! </a>

"Getting these rogue programs back in check is like trying to lasso a runaway train."

<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/38068p-35915c.html"> Homeland a megamerger mess</a>

"The new super-sized security bureau could take years to fully put in place. And there's no assurance that we will be any safer than when we started."

<a href="http://www.aclu.org/Cyber-Liberties/Cyber-Liberties.cfm?ID=11332&c=58"> J. Edgar Ashcroft </a> "What are the dangers to a democracy of a national police organization, like the FBI, which operates secretly and is unresponsive to public criticism?" The essay question that pissed off Hoover. It was optional question number 7 on UC's 1959 English aptitude test for high school applicants

WASHINGTON - Ruling for the first time in its history, the ultra-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review today gave the green light to a Justice Department bid to broadly expand its powers to spy on U.S. citizens.

"We are deeply disappointed with the decision, which suggests that this special court exists only to rubberstamp government applications for intrusive surveillance warrants," said Ann Beeson, litigation director of the Technology and Liberty Program of the American Civil Liberties Union.

"As of today," she said, "the Attorney General can suspend the ordinary requirements of the Fourth Amendment in order to listen in on phone calls, read e-mails, and conduct secret searches of Americans' homes and offices [and take notes of suspicious scratching]."

<h3> And another thing, where in the hell is the ACLU in defense of 2a issues? </h3>