Honk if you’re spying on your neighbors!
Tuesday, July 16th, 2002The Bush administration is planning on recruiting millions of informants to spy on their neighbors, as many as one in 24 Americans by some accounts. This provides an opportunity, as noted by the Washington Post in this editorial, for the government to use utility workers, postal carriers, etc. to conduct warrantless surveillance the government could not lawfully do for itself. Update: The Boston Globe lambasts Operation TIPS in an editorial. “Operation TIPS,” they say, “is a scheme that Joseph Stalin would have appreciated.”
