As Charlie Savage reports in today’s Globe, the Bush administration plans to allow cargo packed by “approved shippers” to be loaded onto passenger airplanes without further screening — despite passage of a law last month which requires cargo to get the same treatment as checked baggage.
Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey championed the law, which is also strongly supported by the people who fly the planes: the Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations.
Once again, it seems the Bush administration has used scare tactics to concentrate more unchecked power in its own hands, while taking a casual attitude toward a real security measure.
The ACLU has been working to get secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions about the scope of wiretapping activities released, and to support Congressional efforts to get secret National Security Agency documents about prior illegal warrantless wiretaps of Americans.
Won’t help listen into the opposition all those “dirty bombers” in America. There’s a reason why this administration wants the ability to listen into Americans en masse and I say it can only be described as nefarious.
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