Audrey Hudson of The Washington Times on Hill assumes oversight role on airline screening:
Congress has given itself special oversight authority to track a new airline screening process criticized by some lawmakers as an infringement on privacy and civil liberties.
The Transportation Security Administration is developing the program — called the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS II — to track potential terrorists. The system will collect and analyze financial data that could be stored for 50 years.
It is a real travesty that due to the action of 19 individuals, not a religion or "race" but 19 individuals, 270 million Americans have been forced to watch as the government has shredded amendment after amendment of the Bill of Rights. Punishing everyone for the actions of a few won't make us any safer. But it will make us less free. Maybe that's the point.
Link courtesy of Patrice McDermott via the In Defense of Freedom mailing list.