This is insane!!!!!  I can't believe that this country has gotten so full of wusses that three psychos with knives and box cutters can hijack an airplane full of people!!!  I would have kicked some dumb knife wielding mofo's ass if I was on one of those planes.

We need to let our intel agencies do their jobs over seas and not rope them in with bleeding heart crap!  They need to be able to infiltrate the enemy to find out what the enemy is doing.  To infiltrate you have to fit in and you can't be a school boy that follows the US Constitution and fit in with terrorist!!!!  Yes they will do things you won't like, but you don't have to do those things personally and they will hopefully protect you from this type of horror!  Remove the shackles and let our intel opertatives in foreign countries do what is needed to get the job done without repercussion.

But DO NOT remove my civil rights!  Don't tell me I can't use crypto and hamper technology because the US has become too pussy to fight terrorism.  The only way to use a computer to stop a terrorist with a knife is to heat him about the head and shoulders with it!!!!  All the code breaking and information security in the world is not going to stop a low tech attack!

Dusty

Read this for some insight into the CIAs Human Intelligence (HUMINT - spys that actually infiltrate the bad guys and act like bad guys to get information) capabilities.  http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/07/gerecht.htm