issues tended to be wrapped up in the debate about should google be tracking your email. it seemed to be more personal and the quote-unquote bad guys were advertisers who wanted to do things, not people who wanted to kill you. i can see those attitudes shifting in the direction of fewer civil liberties and a heavier security state. we know we have a news update that the dhs, the department of homeland secured says it s reforming the student visa system to insure that border officials have real-time updates on all relevant student visa information. where they see a hole as evidenced by this case, they re trying to plug it. the ad hoc nature of this, we re going to set off the bombs in july, they were going to do suicide bombings, it s almost impossible to predict they were going to go to new york after setting off the bombs on the marathon. if not for this guy leaving the car, who knows what would have happened. it s unclear, were they going there to do more damage or going ther
intelligence capability and really putting all the money in the technical side that technical side, yes, it needs to go forward and needs to be funded. but eroding and destroying our human capability here is absolutely a disaster. well, michael. i mean, you know different things that have to be balanced here. you wrote a lot of legislation that has been a model across the country. you know that, you know, of course americans want to feel safe and they want to feel like the fbi and other intel agencies have what they need to go after quote unquote bad guys. at the same time privacy concerns very legitimate for law-abiding citizen. so we just this country has just faced the whole issue of the snowden leaks. and we came back and we said we cannot have our society monitored like this. and now we have this situation plus paris attacks which indicate that there is a lot of stuff going on below the surface that americans and intelligence agencies are not aware of. what is so chilling ab