The FBI's position is essentially, 'Trust us, we're the government,' ... But we have a long history of the FBI abusing its authority.

Echelon is a black box, and nobody outside the intelligence community knows what is inside it.

When we begin to say to police officers that they're allowed to guess about who's dangerous, we're inviting the possibility of abuse.

skeptical that you can both identify dangerous items and eliminate embarrassing imagery.

There's absolutely no bar on collecting plates in public. There haven't been any legal challenges, because it's not illegal.

You have tens of thousands of screeners, with haphazard training and professionalism that varies widely, ... All of this raises the questions of, are we really safer now? And are we getting anything out of this agency, except hassles?