Criminals Accessing Your Private Information

In this case, the criminal is convicted Iran-Contra felon Admiral John Poindexter, who the Bush Administration has placed in charge of the Pentagon's development of a computer system which will provide its operator with "instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant." Meanwhile, the administration is pushing for legislation legalizing this invasion of privacy as part of the "Homeland Security Act," and the FBI is in discussions with the Pentagon about making use of the system.

Maybe Hitch can explain again to us again why bin Laden's corpse is a bigger threat to Americans than Ashcroft and cohorts.