Clearly the events of 9/11 have given us reason to rethink our nation’s attitude toward civil police intelligence operations. At the same time our government has taken a somewhat draconian defensive posture; airline security has been raised to a level that threatens the practical utility of air travel, we talk of shutting bridges and tunnel access when some threat to security is raised, and, every time some reporter thinks up another way for us to be attacked (blowing up LNG tankers in Boston Harbor for example),it sends us into a frenzy of running in circles, screaming and shouting.

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