Review of Spying on the Home Front

Hi all: I asked Linda to review Spying on the Home Front, and share her thoughts so that other students would know whether it would be useful and interesting to view themselves. Here's her response. (Thanks, Linda!)

Here is what I got out of this. I hope others will watch it.I finally got it to work.

I watched Spying on the Home Front- Frontline

It was very interesting in the fact that no American is safe and secure as far as the fact that they can be spied on from the government and not even know. In December 2003, the Las Vegas New Year's celebration was almost cancelled because there was word that there could be a terrorist attack. Every record for Las Vegas casinos, hotels, airlines and rental car agencies was looked at from the FBI for the 2 weeks prior to New Year's. The celebration went on and a lot of people's privacy was invaded. People don't even realize that they are affected by this.
Choice Point and Lexus Nexus are 2 ways of getting information on anyone and there is nothing anyone can do about it. They are privately owned companies so the Privacy Act does not apply to them. It's a scary thought to think that anyone can get your personal information.
There was a lot of evasion of questions from authorities when asked questions by Frontline right up to Alberto Gonzalez, who at the time was Attorney General. Most questions when asked were answered by the comment, "I'm not a liberty to say" or "That's classified or confidential" or "I don't have permission". I find this very disconcerting because what are they trying to hide from us?
What is going to happen in the future? Are we going to give up our rights so that we can have more security? There should be a happy medium.
I think that everyone should watch this so that they know exactly what is or is not going on with our government. They say they are trying to protect us, but at what expense?

Linda Moody