it keeps getting better, folks!:
CRACKDOWN OVERRODE LIBERTY: SECURITY CHIEF
Mark Baker, The Age, 3/10/04
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/09/1078594362827.html
America's top anti-terrorism official has conceded the country courted an
international backlash by failing to temper its security push with respect
for privacy and civil liberties.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said yesterday that some of the tough
measures imposed in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks -
including racially-based checks on foreign visitors to the US - had been
unfair.
"America knows we cannot seek a double standard and America knows we get
what we give. And so we must and will always be careful to respect people's
privacy, civil liberties and reputations," Mr Ridge said here at the start
of a regional tour...
He said immigration controls, imposed soon after the attacks in New York
and Washington, had focused on particular ethnic and religious groups and
been rightly condemned as racial profiling...
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