[Lion's Cub]

I guess the new Total Information Awareness program, where they get an automatic record of all your banking and credit transactions wouldn't tell them when you booked a cruise or bought an airline ticket, etc.

Besides, it is much easier to infringe on the privacy and travel rights of all US citizens than for the government to do it's job and check out potential candidates for US citizenship before that citizenship is conferred. Better that US citizns give up their rights than that the government give up its political correctness. Wouldn't want to offend that religion of peace, after all...

[Lion's Cub]

fyi

[angkor]

Besides, it is much easier to infringe on the privacy and travel rights of all US citizens than for the government to do it's job

I concur.

In addition to violating the 4th and 5th Amendments, this "rule" indicates that the CIA (and its apparent foreign intelligence successor, the FBI) would prefer that American citizens engage in this Orwellian self-reporting.

It's just too d&&mned difficult to go out and track the foreign movements of known terrorist suspects, so make the entire American population suspect.