Text 18258, 58 rader
Skriven 2006-03-12 20:50:05 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 18072 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: SPYING ON AMERICANS
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Ed Hulett -> Gary Braswell wrote:
 EH> Gary Braswell -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:

 GB>> VERN HUMPHREY -> GARY BRASWELL wrote:
 VH>>>>> The problem is, when you're evesdropping on the enemy, you must
 VH>>> take
 VH>>>>> extraordinary measures to ensure he doesn't find out about it.

 VH>>>>> You may recall, Churchill learned through such means of a planned
 VH>>>>> bombing raid on a British city.  He decided that to warn the
 VH>>> people of
 VH>>>>> the city might tip the Germans off -- so he let the raid take
 GB>>   place VH>>> without passing on a warning.

 GB>>>> So the AG is a security risk as is any law that forces the
 GB>>   President VH> to go
 GB>>>> beyond his own office?

 VH>>> ANY person is a security risk.  And the more people in on the
 GB>>   secret, VH> the riskier it is.

 VH>>> And as people like Roosevelt and Churchill knew, listening to the
 GB>>   enemy VH> is an immensely valuable but delicate source of
 EH> information
 GB>>   that must be VH> protected by elaborate means.

 GB>> I doubt terrorists have much of an idea on how we intel them across
 EH> the
 GB>> board.

 EH> They aren't a bunch of illiterate third-worlders, Gary, many of the
leaders
 EH> are university educated at some of the best universities in the western
 EH> world.

 EH> You are underestimating them. That is something we cannot do.

Terrorism has been a topic I have been interested in and pretty well read in
since Operation Eagle Claw (Evening Light) went bad back in 1980.

Its been said that the west trained and educated the best terrorists of the
world.

Its true and I am well aware of it.

Its also true that the US is a latecomer to the "war on terrorism". With the
exception of some skyjackings and our assets getting hit overseas, we
blissfully went along with the protocol of dealing with terrorists for the most
part, as common criminals.

If the terrorists have a complete idea and picture of we intel them across the
board, we have already lost the war.

I don't underestimate them I hope, but I also hope I don't overestimate them
either.

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