The French have a saying — the more things change, the more they stay the same. I would have printed the adage in its original tongue, but I wouldn’t want to be accused by our president of being an intercontinental: code for being a smarty-pants and unpatriotic to boot. On the surface, the world of federal law enforcement has changed radically since Sept. 11. President George W. Bush has anointed a security czar and created an entire new Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. Bush has ordered the FBI and CIA to talk to each other, and they are — except when both are too busy leaking to the press damaging information on the other.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft seeks hundreds of millions of dollars in antiterrorism funding, eases the restrictions on federal agents in monitoring peaceful meetings and organizations, detains hundreds of individuals of Middle Eastern origin, questions thousands more and plans to fingerprint 100,000 visitors a year (mostly from the Middle East).
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