BRAVE NEW SKIES: WHY?

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"If Sept. 11 could have been avoided by four pilots with four .22s, why is the response to that to profile everybody?" asks conservative activist Grover Norquist.
It's the central question Washington power brokers are putting to the Transportation Security Administration, as it attempts to push its creepily invasive CAPPS II passenger-screening program forward.
Everything you wanted to know about the database effort -- and a whole lot you probably didn't -- is in this fine story from Salon's Farhad Manjoo.

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