This article makes me smile. I honestly don't know whether I should salute our openness in describing our intelligence methods for surveilling information or lament our inability to keep our methods secret, I really don't! An excerpt:
- In hundreds of heavily censored pages, the FBI described in unprecedented detail a sophisticated surveillance system known as the Digital Collection System Network. It includes programs to record information about telephone calls - such as the number called and the duration of the call - made by surveillance targets and another program called Digital Storm to record conversations.
Such is the dilemma facing our intel/security/military professionals. How do we as a nation juggle the issues of security and privacy? In my humble opinion, there are no clear answers, but thankfully, we have a wonderful Constitution that gives us a framework.