Off the Record
Still spying
Michael Smerconish says Nidal Hasan's intercepted emails to Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen bolster the case for electronic eavesdropping:
"Absent the horrific scene at Fort Hood, it's not difficult to imagine civil libertarians wringing their hands over the monitoring of e-mails whose content is, by several accounts, far from a smoking gun. Unfortunately, it took the murder of 13 and the wounding of 29 others to put the debate over electronic surveillance, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the NSA into focus."
Will the White House, or the chairmen of congressional intelligence and national security committees support this interpretation?
It seems our spy agencies are keeping their ears open. The question, which the Hasan case raises, is what they should do with the information they gather.
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