There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk

The new rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same terms and conditions as other members of the public for counterterrorism purposes.

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria.

The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority