Wednesday, December 28, 2005

FBI measures mosque radiation without warrants

I meant to comment on this story before Christmas, but in the hustle and bustle I forgot. If you missed it, U.S. News & World Report and the USA Today had pieces on the FBI monitoring radiation levels at Muslim sites without a warrant:
U.S. News and World Report first reported the program on Friday. The magazine said the monitoring was conducted at more than 100 Muslim sites in the Washington, D.C., area — including Maryland and Virginia suburbs — and at least five other cities when threat levels had risen: Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, New York and Seattle.

The magazine said that at its peak, three vehicles in Washington monitored 120 sites a day, nearly all of them Muslim targets identified by the FBI. Targets included mosques, homes and businesses, the magazine said.

The revelation of the surveillance program came just days after The New York Times disclosed that the Bush administration spied on suspected terrorist targets in the United States without court orders. President Bush has said he approved the program to protect Americans from attack.

See, this just goes to show how incompetent the Bush administration is. Everybody knows the FBI isn't allowed to snoop on you and interfere with your right to make a nuclear device. That's the EPA's job. They should have had Bill Wehrum, Assistant Administrator Air & Radiation, out there conducting the measurements personally. After all, the FBI must walk on egg shells, but the EPA is god and has no such problems respecting rights. Or I shoud say, Gaia.

Geez, Mr. President.

(Tongue, meet cheek. Cheek, tongue)

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