January 21, 2005

The FBI's Continuing Challenge: Centralized Intelligence vs. Civil Liberties

By RHODRI JEFFREYS-JONES

The flags flew proudly, and the post-9/11 stickers proclaimed, "United We Stand." It was more an exhortation than an observation. The very message implied division. It could even engender the disunity it deplored. Like the One Hundred Percent Americanism of Red Scare days, it seemed to reproach those who cherish difference, and to be an ill-concealed commandment to obey the cook or get out of the kitchen.

But in tense times unity has hardly prevailed even in the highest government

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