A proposed spending authorization bill for the Department of Homeland Security would implement one of the remaining recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission that Congress has virtually ignored until now.
9/11 Commission
Bid to reform homeland security oversight could lead to ugly battle
9/11 commissioners fault Obama over privacy, civil liberties
The intelligence community is awash in information and still struggles to understand how it can be fully utilized to fight terrorism. At the same time, the government has not done enough to protect American citizens from privacy intrusions and civil liberties abuses resulting from the collection of intelligence and surveillance by authorities.
