This approach doesnt take us forward. It takes us back to the nowdiscredited ideas of the McCarthy Era. and even more recently. to the intimidating FBI interviews with ArabAmerican leaders during the gulf war about their supposed knowledge of possible terrorist activities. and to the "LA 8" case with its attendant revelation of secret Justice Department contingency plans for the mass roundup. Internment. and deportation of Arab nationals. When this bill first came to the floor. it would have given us selective prosecution. more wiretaps. more domestic counterintelligence. deportation of political asylum seekers. and secret evidence to be used in secret trials. While some of these problems have been corrected. the bill is still fatally flawed. We are debating this issue in tense times. with the recent bombings in Israel still fresh in our minds.
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