The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.
Law enforcement officials say the proposed policy would help them do exactly what Congress demanded after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: root out terrorists before they strike.
Although President Bush has disavowed targeting suspects based on their race or ethnicity, the new rules would allow the FBI to consider those factors among a number of traits that could trigger a national security investigation.
Currently, FBI agents need specific reasons — like evidence or allegations that a law probably has been violated — to investigate U.S. citizens and legal residents. The new policy, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press, would let agents open preliminary terrorism investigations after mining public records and intelligence to build a profile of traits that, taken together, were deemed suspicious.
Among the factors that could make someone subject of an investigation is travel to regions of the world known for terrorist activity, access to weapons or military training, along with the person's race or ethnicity.
AMONG the factors. I guess AMONG the others are, as I mentioned in the title, performing suspicious activity such as registering to vote as a Democrat, writing a progressive blog, reading The Shock Doctrine, wearing a T-shirt critical of the Administration, putting an Obama bumper sticker on your car, and other demonstrations of disrespsect for current ruling American Junta.
Note also how the article specifically refers to investigating AMERICANS.
So much for the presumption of innocence. So much for the government having to have a case against you before putting you through a Kafkaesque nightmare of having to prove "not".
So much for America.
The terrorists won.
The only question is this: Just who are the terrorists?
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