CIVIL LIBERTIES

Anyone else find it interesting that on the exact same day that the terror alert went up to "high" (leading as the top news of the day), information about new and broader domestic spying parameters Ashcroft is seeking came out also (further back in the paper)? This proposed law... “would radically expand law enforcement and intelligence gathering authorities, reduce or eliminate judicial oversight over surveillance, authorize secret arrests, create a DNA database based on unchecked executive ‘suspicion,’ create new death penalties, and even seek to take American citizenship away from persons who belong to or support disfavored political groups."