http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/01/nctc_access.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Thu, 24 May 2012 10:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/01/nctc_access.html/comment-page-1#comment-2487 AJ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:46:18 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2201#comment-2487 I have a big problem with the way the Bush Administration has taken great pains to separate terrorism from other criminal activities. Terrorists are also criminals and to create an artificial division allows for the use of methods other than those available for other criminal prevention measures to be used. This also has the effect of lessening the efforts of law enforcement to properly track criminals because they (like the FBI) are being focused on tracking terrorists, to the near exclusion of other criminals. Now this database of terrorists will access other databases of non-terrorist information to see who could be a terrorist. I guess this means the FBI has had the ability to go after terrorists taken away from them. I have a big problem with the way the Bush Administration has taken great pains to separate terrorism from other criminal activities. Terrorists are also criminals and to create an artificial division allows for the use of methods other than those available for other criminal prevention measures to be used. This also has the effect of lessening the efforts of law enforcement to properly track criminals because they (like the FBI) are being focused on tracking terrorists, to the near exclusion of other criminals. Now this database of terrorists will access other databases of non-terrorist information to see who could be a terrorist. I guess this means the FBI has had the ability to go after terrorists taken away from them.

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